1883 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1883 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
1883 record9–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainRay Tompkins
Home stadiumHamilton Park
Seasons
← 1882
1884 →
1883 college football records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 0
Gallaudet   –   2 – 0 – 0
Carleton   –   1 – 0 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 2 – 1
Stevens   –   6 – 4 – 1
Massachusetts   –   1 – 1 – 0
Minnesota   –   1 – 1 – 0
Wesleyan   –   3 – 3 – 0
Williams   –   1 – 1 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 5 – 0
Michigan   –   2 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   2 – 4 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   1 – 2 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 0
Amherst   –   0 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   0 – 1 – 0
Hamline   –   0 – 1 – 0
Lewisburg   –   0 – 1 – 0
Navy   –   0 – 1 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 2 – 0
Columbian University   –   0 – 2 – 0
Georgetown   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1883 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1883 college football season. The team compiled a 9–0 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 540 to 2.[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26Wesleyan
W 58–0
September 29at WesleyanMiddletown, CTW 90–0
October 6Stevens
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 59–0[3]
November 6vs. Rutgers
W 92–0nearly 1,000[4]
November 14Brooklyn Polytechnic InstituteBrooklyn, NYW 49–0
November 17vs. Columbia
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 93–0400–500[5]
November 21Michigan
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 64–0400
November 24vs. Princeton
W 6–05,000–6,000[6]
November 29vs. Harvard
W 23–2nearly 10,000[7]

[1]

Roster[]

  • Rushers: Samuel Reading Bertron (4), Howard H. Knapp, F. G. Peters (4), Ray Tompkins, A. L. Farwell (4), Williams (4), Louis K. Hull, W. P. McCrorey
  • Quarterback: Henry Twombly (4)
  • Halfbacks: Wyllys Terry, Eugene Lamb Richards
  • Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon

References[]

  1. ^ a b "1883 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Yale vs. Stevens Institute". The Harvard Crimson. October 12, 1883.
  4. ^ "Yale Easily Defeats Rutgers". New York Tribune. November 7, 1883. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Two Games of Football". The Sun. November 18, 1883. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale Beats Princeton". The Sun. November 25, 1883. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale Again Victorious". New York Tribune. November 30, 1883. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
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