1895 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1895 Yale Bulldogs football
1895 Yale Bulldogs (team picture).jpg
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1895 record13–0–2
Head coach
  • John A. Hartwell (1st season)
CaptainSam Thorne
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1894
1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   14 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   13 – 0 – 2
Princeton   –   10 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   8 – 2 – 1
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 2
Army   –   5 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   8 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   6 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   6 – 5 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 6 – 1
Carlisle   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 3
Cornell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 0
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 1
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   1 – 4 – 0
Massachusetts   –   1 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn.   –   1 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1895 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 13–0–2 record and was retroactively named as a co-national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 28at Trinity (CT)Hartford, CTW 8–0
October 2Brown
W 4–0
October 5at Union (NY)Schenectady, NYW 26–0
October 9Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–0
October 12at Crescent Athletic Club
  • Eastern Park
  • Brooklyn, NY
W 8–2[3]
October 16vs. Dartmouth
  • Hampden Park
  • Springfield, MA
W 26–0
October 19at Orange Athletic Club
W 24–12
October 23Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 54–0
October 26Boston Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
T 0–0
October 30Dartmouth
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 32–0
November 2at Army
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 28–8
November 6Carlisle
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0
November 9at BrownProvidence, RIT 6–6
November 16at Orange Athletic ClubOrange, NJW 26–0
November 23vs. Princeton
W 20–10

[2]

Posed photo of the full roster of the 1895 Yale football team

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 "1895 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Crescents Surprise Yale". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 13, 1895. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
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