1907 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1907 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
1907 record9–0–1
Head coach
  • William F. Knox (1st season)
CaptainLucius Horatio Bigelow
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1906
1908 →
1907 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Dartmouth   –   8 – 0 – 1
Penn   –   11 – 1 – 0
Carlisle   –   10 – 1 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 0 – 2
Fordham   –   6 – 1 – 1
Cornell   –   8 – 2 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   8 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 1
Lehigh   –   7 – 2 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 2 – 0
Army   –   6 – 2 – 1
NYU   –   5 – 2 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 1 – 2
Harvard   –   7 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Syracuse   –   5 – 3 – 1
Drexel   –   3 – 2 – 2
Colgate   –   4 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   4 – 5 – 2
Amherst   –   3 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 4 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 6 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 5 – 1
Bucknell   –   4 – 7 – 0
New Hampshire   –   1 – 5 – 2
Villanova   –   1 – 5 – 1
Holy Cross   –   1 – 7 – 2
Wesleyan   –   1 – 7 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   1 – 8 – 0

The 1907 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1907 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Caspar Whitney, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, the National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 2Wesleyan
W 25–0
October 5Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–0
October 9Springfield YMCA
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0
October 12Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 52–0
October 19at Army
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 0–0
October 26Villanova
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 45–0[3]
November 2Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–0
November 9Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0
November 16Princeton
W 12–10
November 23at Harvard
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 12–0

[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 "1907 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Yale 45, Villanova 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved November 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.
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