1897 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1897 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1897 record9–0–2
Head coach
  • Frank Butterworth (1st season)
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1896
1898 →
1897 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     15 0 0
Buffalo     7 0 0
Princeton     10 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     10 1 0
Yale     9 0 2
Harvard     10 1 1
Army     6 1 1
Vermont     3 0 2
Lafayette     9 2 1
Drexel     6 2 1
Colgate     5 2 1
Dickinson     7 3 2
Swarthmore     7 3 2
Fordham     2 1 1
Cornell     5 3 1
Syracuse     5 3 1
Brown     7 4 0
Carlisle     6 4 0
Boston College     4 3 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Bucknell     3 3 1
NYU     3 3 0
Temple     3 3 0
Trinity (CT)     4 4 1
Wesleyan     6 6 0
Tufts     6 7 0
Geneva     3 4 1
Pittsburgh College     2 3 1
Villanova     3 5 1
Penn State     3 6 0
Amherst     2 6 2
Frankin & Marshall     2 6 2
Lehigh     3 7 0
New Hampshire     2 5 0
Rutgers     2 6 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 3 0

The 1897 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–2 record and was retroactively named as a co-national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29at Trinity (CT)Hartford, CTW 10–0
October 2Wesleyan
W 30–0
October 6Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0
October 9Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 32–0
October 16at Newton Athletic ClubNewton, MAW 10–0
October 20Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–14
October 23vs. Carlisle
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 24–9
October 30at Army
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 6–6
November 6Chicago Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–6
November 13at Harvard
T 0–0
November 20Princeton
W 6–018,000[3]

[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 "1897 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Great Victory for Yale: She Plays a Brilliant Game, Defeating Princeton with a Score of 6 to 0". The New York Times. November 21, 1897. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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