1920 Yale Bulldogs football team

1920 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference Independent
1920 record 5–3
Head coach Tad Jones (3rd season)
Offensive scheme Single wing
Home stadium Yale Bowl

The 1920 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1920 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 5–3 record under third-year head coach Tad Jones.[1] Yale guard Tim Callahan was a consensus selection for the 1920 College Football All-America Team,[2] receiving first team honors from Walter Camp,[3] the United Press,[4] and the International News Service.[5] Yale's other guard, John Acosta, also received first-team All-America honors from Walter Eckersall.[6]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Carnegie Tech
W 44–0
October 9 North Carolina
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–0
October 16 Boston College
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 13–21
October 23 West Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 24–0
October 30 Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–7
November 6 Brown
W 14–10
November 13at Princeton
L 0–2050,000[7]
November 20 Harvard
L 0–9close to 80,000[8]

References

  1. ↑ "1920 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived 2009-07-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "Camp Names Gridiron Stars". Post-Standard. Syracuse, NY. 1920-12-15.
  4. ↑ Henry L. Farrell (1920-12-10). "Brilliant Backs Are Features of 1920 Eleven: United Press Scribe Picks An All-American Eleven Himself". Middletown Daily Herald.
  5. ↑ Jacob Velock (1920-12-07). "Hard Task To Pick All-American Team From This Season's Galaxy of Stars". Trenton Evening Times.
  6. ↑ "Weston on Second All-American Team". Janesville Daily Gazette. 1920-12-13.
  7. ↑ Grantland Rice (November 14, 1920). "Princeton Blanks Yale 20 to 0; Worst Beating Ever Inflicted on Bulldog by Tiger". New York Tribune. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Crimson Defeats Yale By Score of 9-0: Crimson Machine Held By Savage Defense of Yale". The Hartford Courant. November 21, 1920. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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