1902 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1902 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1902 record11–0–1
Head coach
  • Joseph R. Swan (1st season)
CaptainGeorge B. Chadwick
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1901
1903 →
1902 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Ursinus   –   9 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   11 – 0 – 1
Geneva   –   7 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   11 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 1 – 0
Army   –   6 – 1 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   7 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 2 – 1
Holy Cross   –   6 – 2 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 1
Carlisle   –   8 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 4 – 0
Lehigh   –   7 – 3 – 1
Vermont   –   5 – 3 – 2
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 1
NYU   –   5 – 3 – 0
Columbia   –   6 – 4 – 1
Bucknell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 6 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   5 – 6 – 1
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Tufts   –   4 – 6 – 1
Fordham   –   2 – 4 – 1
Wesleyan   –   3 – 6 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 7 – 0
Navy   –   2 – 7 – 1
Drexel   –   1 – 4 – 1
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
Pittsburgh College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Boston College   –   0 – 8 – 0

The 1902 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1902 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0–1 record and was retroactively named by one selector, Parke H. Davis, as a national champion, along with Michigan.[1][2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 27Trinity (CT)
W 40–0
October 1Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–6
October 4Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0
October 8Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 35–0
October 11at Brown
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 10–0
October 15Vermont
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 32–0[3]
October 18Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–0
October 25Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 24–0
November 1at Army
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 6–6
November 8Bucknell
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–5
November 15at Princeton
  • Osborne Field
  • Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
W 12–5
November 22Harvard
W 23–0

[2]

References[]

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "1902 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Yale easily defeats Vermont in a well played game". New York Tribune. October 16, 1903. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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