1887 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1887 Yale Bulldogs football
Yale Bulldogs football team (1887).jpg
National champion
IFA champion
ConferenceIntercollegiate Football Association
1887 record9–0 ( IFA)
Head coach
  • None
CaptainHarry Beecher
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1886
1888 →
1887 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   4 – 3 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   3 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   6 – 7 – 0
Wesleyan   –   4 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   4 – 6 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 6 – 0
Bucknell   –   0 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   0 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   0 – 2 – 0
Vermont   –   0 – 2 – 0
Stevens   –   0 – 6 – 1

The 1887 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1887 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5Wesleyan
W 38–0
October 15at WesleyanMiddletown, CTW 106–0
October 22at WilliamsWilliamstown, MAW 74–0
October 29at PennPhiladelphia, PAW 50–0
November 6Rutgers
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 74–0
November 8at Crescent Athletic Club
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 70–0[3]
November 12Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 76–4
November 19vs. Princeton
W 12–0[4]
November 242:00 p.m.vs. Harvard
W 17–815,000[5]
  • All times are in Eastern time

[2]

References[]

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "1887 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Yale Foot Ball Kickers: Harry Beecher Helped Them Annihilate the Brookly Crescents". The Brooklyn Daily Eagles. November 9, 1887. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Yale Triumphs in the Mud". The Sun (New York). November 20, 1887. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Yale Outplays Harvard". The New York Times. November 25, 1887. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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