1923 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1923 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (QPRS)
ConferenceIndependent
Head coach
  • Tad Jones (6th season)
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Uniform
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Seasons
← 1922
1924 →
1923 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell   –   8 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   8 – 0 – 0
Dartmouth   –   8 – 1 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 1 – 0
Boston College   –   7 – 1 – 1
Rutgers   –   7 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 1 – 1
Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 1 – 2
Tufts   –   6 – 2 – 0
Army   –   6 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   6 – 2 – 1
Geneva   –   6 – 2 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 2 – 1
NYU   –   6 – 2 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 2 – 1
Vermont   –   6 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Harvard   –   4 – 3 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   4 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   5 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   5 – 4 – 0
Bucknell   –   4 – 4 – 1
Columbia   –   4 – 4 – 1
Duquesne   –   4 – 4 – 0
Princeton   –   3 – 3 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Drexel   –   2 – 6 – 0
Fordham   –   2 – 7 ��� 0
Boston University   –   1 – 6 – 0
Villanova   –   0 – 7 – 1
Temple   –   0 – 5 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 7 – 0

The 1923 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1923 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an undefeated 8–0 record under sixth-year head coach Tad Jones. Yale outscored its opponents by a combined score of 230 to 38, including a 40–0 victory over Georgia, a 31–10 victory over Army and shutout victories over rivals Princeton and Harvard.[1] Two Yale players, tackle Century Milstead and fullback Bill Mallory, were consensus selections for the 1923 College Football All-America Team.[2] The team was selected retroactively as a co-national champion by the Berryman QPRS system.[3]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6 North Carolina
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 53–0
October 13 Georgia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 40–0
October 20 Bucknell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 29–14
October 27 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–0
November 3 Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 31–10[4]
November 10 Maryland
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–1420,000[5]
November 17 Princeton
W 27–0
November 24at Harvard
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA (rivalry)
W 13–0

References[]

  1. ^ "1923 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1155
  3. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  4. ^ "Army is routed by Yale attack". St. Petersburg Times. Associated Press. November 4, 1923. p. 8.
  5. ^ "Maryland Throws Big Scare Into Bulldog Camp, Score 16-14". The Hartford Courant. November 11, 1923. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
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