1890 Yale Bulldogs football team

1890 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference Independent
1890 record 13–1
Head coach Walter Camp (3rd season)
Captain William Rhodes
1890 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard   –    11 –0 –0
Yale   –    13 –1 –0
California   –    4 –0 –0
Virginia   –    5 –2 –0
Cornell   –    8 –4 –0
Michigan   –    4 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –    4 –4 –0
Washington   –    0 –0 –1
Columbia   –    1 –5 –1
Colorado   –    0 –4 –0

The 1890 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1890 college football season. In its third year under head coach Walter Camp, the team compiled a 13–1 record, recorded 12 shutouts, and outscored all opponents by a total of 486 to 18. Its only loss was to rival Harvard by a 12–6 score.[1]

Three Yale players (halfback Thomas McClung, guard Pudge Heffelfinger, and tackle William Rhodes) were consensus picks for the 1890 College Football All-America Team.[2] All three have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1 Wesleyan
W 8–0 [3]
October 4at Crescent Athletic Club
W 18–64,000[4]
October 8at Wesleyan Middletown, CTW 34–0 [5]
October 11 Lehigh
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 26–0 [6]
October 15at Trinity Hartford, CTW 40–0500[7]
October 18at Orange Athletic Club
W 16–0 [8]
October 22 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–0 [9]
October 25at Amherst Amherst, MAW 12–0 [10]
November 1 Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 76–0 [11]
November 4at Crescent Athletic Club
W 52–08,000[12]
November 8 Rutgers
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 70–0 [13]
November 15 Penn (rivalry)
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 60–0 [14]
November 22vs. Harvard Springfield, MAL 6–12> 9,000[15]
November 27vs. Princeton
W 32–010,000[16][17]

References

  1. ↑ "1890 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. ↑ "The Season Opened At Yale". The Sun (New York). October 2, 1890. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Weak In The Rush Line: The Crescents Succumb to Yale's Foot Ball Team". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 5, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Yale 34, Wesleyan 0". The Hartford Courant. October 9, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Yale Defeats Lehigh". The Times (Philadelphia). October 12, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Yale, 40; Trinity, 0". The World (New York). October 16, 1890. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Yale Makes Sixteen Points". New York Tribune. October 19, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Yale Plays At Home". The New York Times. October 23, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Yale's Slender Victory Over Amherst". New York Tribune. October 26, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Wesleyan No Match For Yale". New York Tribune. November 2, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Yale's Victory". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 5, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Rhodes Went To See Harvard". The New York Times. November 9, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Yale Victorious: The "Varsity" Boys Meet With a Waterloo in New Haven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 16, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Harvard's Jubilee: Her Team Defeats Yale in the Great Football Game at Springfield". New York Tribune. November 23, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Yale's Blue Kickers Win". The Sun (New York). November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ "Fall of a Crowded Stand". The Sun (New York). November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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