1923 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1923 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1923 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an undefeated 8–0 record under sixth-year head coach Tad Jones. Yale outscored its opponents by a combined score of 230 to 38, including a 40–0 victory over Georgia, a 31–10 victory over Army and shutout victories over rivals Princeton and Harvard.[1] Two Yale players, tackle Century Milstead and fullback Bill Mallory, were consensus selections for the 1923 College Football All-America Team.[2] The team was selected retroactively as a co-national champion by the Berryman QPRS system.[3]

1923 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (QPRS)
ConferenceIndependent
Head coachTad Jones (6th season)
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Uniform
1923 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Cornell      8 0 0
Yale      8 0 0
Dartmouth      8 1 0
Syracuse      8 1 0
Boston College      7 1 1
Rutgers      7 1 1
Lafayette      6 1 2
Tufts      6 2 0
Army      6 2 1
Colgate      6 2 1
Lehigh      6 2 1
NYU      6 2 1
Penn State      6 2 1
Brown      6 4 0
Harvard      4 3 1
Carnegie Tech      4 3 1
Penn      5 4 0
Pittsburgh      5 4 0
Duquesne      4 4 0
Columbia      4 4 1
Princeton      3 3 1
Franklin & Marshall      3 5 1
Drexel      2 6 0
Fordham      2 7 0
Villanova      0 7 1
Temple      0 5 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 6 North CarolinaW 53–0
October 13 Georgia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 40–0
October 20 Bucknell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 29–14
October 27 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–0
November 3 Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 31–10
November 10 Maryland
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–14
November 17 Princeton
W 27–0
November 24at Harvard W 13–0

References

  1. "1923 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1155
  3. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
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