1879 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1879 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1879 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0–2 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

1879 Yale Bulldogs football
Yale Bulldogs, co-national champions
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1879 record3–0–2
Head coachNone
CaptainWalter Camp
Home stadiumHamilton Park
1879 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton      4 0 1
Yale      3 0 2
Massachusetts      1 0 0
Michigan      1 0 1
Harvard      2 1 2
Penn      2 2 0
Amherst      1 1 0
Navy      0 0 1
McGill      0 0 1
Toronto      0 0 1
Stevens      1 2 5
Rutgers      1 2 3
PA Military      0 1 1
Racine      0 1 0
Columbia      0 3 2
Swarthmore *      0 0 0
  • * – Result of Swarthmore's lone game is unknown

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
November 1vs. PennHoboken, NJW 3–0
November 8HarvardT 0–0
November 15Rutgers
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 5–0
November 223:00 p.m.vs. Columbia
  • St. George's Cricket Club grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
W 2–0[3]
November 27vs. PrincetonHoboken, NJ (rivalry)T 0–0

[2]

Roster

  • Forwards: Franklin M. Eaton, John S. Harding, Louis K. Hull, Benjamin B. Lamb, Howard H. Knapp, John Moorhead Jr., Frederic Remington, Charles S. Beck
  • Halfbacks: Walter Irving Badger, Walter Camp, George H. Clark, William A. Peters, Robert W. Watson
  • Backs: William K. Nixon, Chester W. Lyman
  • Others: Benjamin Wisner Bacon, John S. Durand, John F. Merrill, Charles B. Storrs, Frederick R. Vernon
  • Manager: Eugene W. Walker

Sources:[4][5][6]

References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. "1879 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. "Desperate Struggle Between Yale and Columbia At Hoboken—The New Haven Boys Victorious". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 23, 1879. p. 13. Retrieved April 29, 2020 via Newspapers.com .
  4. Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 81.
  5. Tim Cohane (1951). The Yale Football Story. Putnam. p. 343.
  6. "Yale Football 2009 Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. pp. 113–125.
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