1884 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1884 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Helms, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1884 record8–0–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainEugene Lamb Richards
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1883
1885 →
1884 college football records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   8 – 0 – 1
Michigan   –   2 – 0 – 0
Williams   –   2 – 0 – 0
Navy   –   1 – 0 – 0
Wabash   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   5 – 1 – 1
Fordham   –   5 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   7 – 4 – 0
Wesleyan   –   3 – 2 – 0
Butler   –   1 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 1 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
Stevens   –   4 – 5 – 0
Dartmouth   –   1 – 2 – 1
Tufts   –   2 – 4 – 1
Massachusetts   –   1 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   2 – 5 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   1 – 3 – 0
Albion   –   0 – 1 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 1 – 0
DePauw   –   0 – 1 – 0
Olivet   –   0 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   0 – 3 – 0
Lehigh   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1884 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1884 college football season. The team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 495 to 10.[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1Wesleyan
W 31–0
October 11Stevens
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 96–0
October 18vs. Wesleyan
  • Ward Street Grounds[3]
  • Hartford, CT
W 63–0
October 22at RutgersNew Brunswick, NJW 76–10[4]
October 25at DartmouthHanover, NHW 113–0
November 5Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0
November 19Yale Alumni
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0
November 22Harvard
W 52–02,400[5]
November 27vs. Princeton
T 0–0over 10,000[6]

[1]

Roster[]

  • Rushers: F. W. Wallace, Samuel Reading Bertron, H. R. Flanders, F. G. Peters, A. B. Coxe, R. Ronalds, W. N. Goodwin, Sheffield, L. F. Robinson, R. S. Storrs
  • Quarterback: T. L. Bayne
  • Halfbacks: Eugene Lamb Richards, Wyllys Terry
  • Back: M. H. Marlin

References[]

  1. ^ a b "1884 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. ^ Football ad - Newspapers.com
  4. ^ "College Foot Ball Contests". Evening Star. October 23, 1884. p. 3.
  5. ^ "The Harvards Badly Beaten: The Yale Football Team Whip Them by a Score of 52 to 0". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Hard Work and No Glory: The Princeton-Yale Football Game Declared Drawn". The New York Times. November 28, 1884. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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