1891 Yale Bulldogs football team

1891 Yale Bulldogs football
Consensus national champion
IFA champion
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1891 record 13–0 ( )
Head coach Walter Camp (4th season)
Captain Lee McClung
Home stadium Yale Field
1891 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    13 –0 –0
Harvard   –    13 –1 –0
Princeton   –    12 –1 –0
Trinity   –    3 –0 –0
Wake Forest   –    1 –0 –0
Penn   –    11 –2 –0
Illinois   –    5 –1 –0
Colgate   –    4 –1 –0
Army   –    4 –1 –1
Stanford   –    3 –1 –0
Vanderbilt   –    3 –1 –0
Wisconsin   –    3 –1 –1
Navy   –    5 –2 –0
Cornell   –    7 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    8 –6 –0
Geneva   –    4 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –    4 –2 –0
Virginia   –    2 –1 –2
Delaware   –    5 –3 –1
Dartmouth   –    2 –2 –1
Washington   –    1 –1 –0
Doane   –    1 –2 –0
Sewanee   –    1 –2 –0
USC   –    1 –2 –0
Michigan   –    4 –5 –0
Ohio State   –    2 –3 –0
Colorado   –    1 –4 –0
Columbia   –    1 –5 –0
Indiana   –    1 –5 –0
California   –    0 –1 –0
Central   –    0 –1 –0
Furman   –    0 –1 –0
West Virginia   –    0 –1 –0
North Carolina   –    0 –2 –0

The 1891 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 13–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
September 30 Wesleyan Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 28–0  
October 3 Crescent Athletic Club Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 26–0  
October 7 at Trinity (CT) Hartford, CT W 36–0  
October 10 vs. Williams Albany, NY W 46–0  
October 14 Springfield (MA) Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 28–0  
October 24 at Orange Athletic Club Orange, NJ W 36–0  
October 31 Lehigh Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 38–0  
November 3 Crescent Athletic Club Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 70–0  
November 7 Wesleyan Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 76–0  
November 11 Amherst Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 27–0  
November 14 vs. Penn Polo Grounds • New York, NY (rivalry) W 48–0  
November 21 vs. Harvard Hampden Park • Springfield, MA (rivalry) W 10–0  
November 26 vs. Princeton Polo Grounds • New York, NY (rivalry) W 19–0  

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References

  1. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "1891 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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