1886 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1886 Yale Bulldogs football
Yale Bulldogs (1886 team picture).jpg
National champion (Helms, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
IFA co-champion
ConferenceIntercollegiate Football Association
1886 record9–0–1 ( IFA)
Head coach
  • None
CaptainRobert Corwin
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1885
1887 →
1886 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   7 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   12 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   10 – 2 – 0
Williams   –   5 – 1 – 1
Massachusetts   –   2 – 1 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 7 – 1
Lehigh   –   4 – 3 – 1
Dartmouth   –   2 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   3 – 4 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   2 – 6 – 0
MIT   –   2 – 6 – 1
Vermont   –   0 – 1 – 0
Stevens   –   0 – 7 – 1
Tufts   –   0 – 8 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –     –  
Trinity (CT)   –     –  

The 1886 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

On Thanksgiving Day in Princeton, New Jersey, undefeated teams from Yale and Princeton met. The game started late due to the absence of a referee, and heavy rain caused the game to be called on account of darkness with Yale leading 4–0 in the second half. Under the rules of the time, the game was declared "no contest" by the substitute referee, and the final score was declared to be 0–0. After a special meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association held to review the game, the Association issued a two-part resolution: that (1) Yale should have been acknowledged the winner, but that (2) under their existing rules, the Association did not have the authority to award the game to them.[3]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 6Wesleyan
W 75–0
October 9at WesleyanMiddletown, CTW 62–0
October 16MIT
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 96–0
October 20at StevensHoboken, NJW 54–0
October 23at WilliamsWilliamstown, MAW 76–0
October 30Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 136–0
November 2at Crescent Athletic Club
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 82–0[4]
November 13Penn
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 75–0
November 20at Harvard
  • Jarvis Field
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
W 29–4
November 25at PrincetonPrinceton, NJ (rivalry)T 0–0

[2]

References[]

  1. ^ 1886 Yale University football scores and results Archived July 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 16, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "1886 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "No Football Champions.; But Princeton Challenges Yale To Another Game On Saturday". The New York Times. November 28, 1886.
  4. ^ "Brooklyn Against Yale: The College Boys Prove Themselves Superior at Football". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 3, 1886. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
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