1878 Yale Bulldogs football team

1878 Yale Bulldogs football
1878 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
1878 record	4–1–1
Head coach	None;
Captain	Walter Camp
Home stadium	Hamilton Park
	Seasons ← 1877 1879 →

The 1878 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1878 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 4–1–1 record. The team recorded five shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 7 to 1.^[1]^[2]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
November 2	Amherst	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 2–0
November 9	Trinity (CT)	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 2–0	^[3]
November 13	at Trinity (CT)	Hartford Ball Club Grounds Hartford, CT	W 3–0
November 16	Amherst	Amherst, MA	T 0–0
November 23	at Harvard	South End Grounds Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 1–0
November 28	vs. Princeton	St George's Cricket Club Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–1	^[4]

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References[]

^ "1878 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ ^a ^b "2015 Yale Football" (PDF). yalebulldogs.com. Yale Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
^ "1878 Trinity vs. Yale Football Program". Football of Yore. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
^ "PRINCETON DEFEATS YALE.; THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME OF FOOTBALL. AN EXCITED AND WELL-CONTESTED GAME--THE LARGEST CROWD EVER GATHERED ON THE ST. GEORGE'S CRICKET GROUNDS--THE ORANGE AND BLACK WINS BY A TOUCH-DOWN AND A GOAL". The New York Times. November 29, 1878. Retrieved August 2, 2020.

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[1] "1878 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.

[SR-2] "2015 Yale Football" (PDF). yalebulldogs.com. Yale Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.

[3] "1878 Trinity vs. Yale Football Program". Football of Yore. Retrieved 2020-08-01.

[4] "PRINCETON DEFEATS YALE.; THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME OF FOOTBALL. AN EXCITED AND WELL-CONTESTED GAME--THE LARGEST CROWD EVER GATHERED ON THE ST. GEORGE'S CRICKET GROUNDS--THE ORANGE AND BLACK WINS BY A TOUCH-DOWN AND A GOAL". The New York Times. November 29, 1878. Retrieved August 2, 2020.

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v t Yale Bulldogs football
Venues	Hamilton Park (1872–1883) Yale Field (1884–1914) Yale Bowl (1914–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Harvard Princeton
Culture & lore	1910 Vanderbilt game 1968 Harvard game (Harvard Beats Yale 29-29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank Handsome Dan "Boola Boola" Pigskin Parade Huddle
People	NFL draftees
Seasons	1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
National championship seasons in bold

1878 college football records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Princeton		–		6	–	0	–	0
Yale		–		4	–	1	–	1
Columbia		–		0	–	0	–	1
CCNY		–		1	–	1	–	0
Stevens		–		1	–	1	–	2
Harvard		–		1	–	2	–	0
Penn		–		1	–	2	–	1
Rutgers		–		1	–	2	–	1
Amherst		–		1	–	3	–	0
Brown		–		0	–	1	–	0
Swarthmore		–		0	–	1	–	0