1903 Yale Bulldogs football team

1903 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference Independent
1903 record 11–1
Head coach George B. Chadwick (1st season)
Home stadium Yale Field

The 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1903 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach George B. Chadwick. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 206 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Princeton.[1]

Four Yale players (fullback Ledyard Mitchell, end Charles D. Rafferty, tackle James Hogan and guard James Bloomer) were consensus picks for the 1903 College Football All-America Team.[2] Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick,[3] and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the San Antonio Daily Light.[4]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
September 26 Trinity (CT) Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 35–0  
September 30 Tufts Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 19–0  
October 3 Vermont Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 46–0  
October 7 Wesleyan Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 33–0  
October 10 Springfield (MA) Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 22–0  
October 14 Holy Cross Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 36–10  
October 17 Penn State Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 27–0  
October 24 at Army The Plain • West Point, NY W 17–5  
October 31 Columbia Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 25–0  
November 7 Syracuse Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 30–0  
November 14 Princeton Yale Field • New Haven, CT (rivalry) L 6–11  
November 21 at Harvard Soldiers' Field • Cambridge, Massachusetts (rivalry) W 16–0  

References

  1. ↑ "1903 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. ↑ "Crack Football Eleven". Los Angeles Times. 1903-11-30.
  4. ↑ "The Ideal All-American Team". San Antonio Daily Light. 1903-12-14.
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