1877 Yale Bulldogs football team

1877 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (NCF) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	3–0–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Eugene V. Baker
Home stadium	Hamilton Park
Seasons ←  1876 1878  →

1877 college football records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					2	–	0	–	1
Amherst			–					1	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					3	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	2	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	2	–	0
Stevens			–					1	–	3	–	0
Tufts			–					0	–	3	–	0

The 1877 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1877 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0–1 record and was retroactively named national champion by the National Championship Foundation and co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. ^{[1] [2]}

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
November 3	Tufts	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 1–0		[3]
November 21	Trinity (CT)	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 7–0		[4]
November 24	Stevens	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 13–0		[5]
December 8	vs. Princeton	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)	T 0–0	2,000–3,000	[6] [7]

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Roster

• Eugene V. Baker
• Fayette J. Brown
• Frederic W. Brown
• Walter Camp
• George H. Clark
• William V. Downer
• John S. Harding
• Henry Ives
• Benjamin B. Lamb
• William A. Peters
• Edward W. Smith
• William H. Smith
• O. D. Thompson
• John Trumbull
• William J. Wakeman
• William L. R. Wurts

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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. "1877 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "The Tufts Football Team Defeated By Yale". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 4, 1877. p. 5. Retrieved March 26, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
4. "Football—A Fine Game Between Yale And Trinity". New York Herald . New York, New York. November 22, 1877. p. 5. Retrieved March 27, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
5. "Foot-Ball Matters At Yale". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 25, 1877. p. 8. Retrieved March 27, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
6. "Great Football Game.—Yale and Princeton Teams Playing for the Championship". New York Herald . New York, New York. December 9, 1877. p. 12. Retrieved March 26, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
7. "The Sporting World—Football Match between Yale and Princeton". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. December 9, 1877. p. 8. Retrieved March 26, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
8. "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.