1878 Yale Bulldogs football team

1878 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–1–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Walter Camp
Home stadium	Hamilton Park
Seasons ←  1877 1879  →

1878 college football records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					6	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					4	–	1	–	1
Columbia			–					0	–	0	–	1
CCNY			–					1	–	1	–	0
Stevens			–					1	–	1	–	2
Harvard			–					1	–	2	–	0
Penn			–					1	–	2	–	1
Rutgers			–					1	–	2	–	1
Amherst			–					1	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					0	–	1	–	0
Swarthmore			–					0	–	1	–	0

The 1878 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1878 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 4–1–1 record. The team recorded five shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 7 to 1. ^{[1] [2]} A loss to Princeton stripped Yale of the fictional College Football Macguffin award.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
November 2		Amherst	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 2–0		[3]
November 9		Trinity (CT)	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 2–0		[4] [5]
November 13		at Trinity (CT)	Hartford Ball Club Grounds Hartford, CT	W 3–0		[6]
November 16		at Amherst	Blake Field Amherst, MA	T 0–0		[7]
November 23		at Harvard	Boston Baseball Grounds Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 1–0	700	[8] [9]
November 28	2:25 p.m.	vs. Princeton	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–1		[10]

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Roster

• Walter Irving Badger
• Fayette J. Brown
• Frederic W. Brown
• Walter Camp
• Henry C. Crouch
• Franklin M. Eaton
• John V. Farwell
• Philo C. Fuller
• John S. Harding
• William B. Hill
• Louis K. Hull
• Henry Ives
• Preston King
• Benjamin B. Lamb
• John Moorhead Jr.
• William W. K. Nixon
• William A. Peters
• Thomas E. Rochfort
• O. D. Thompson
• Frederick R. Vernon
• William J. Wakeman
• Robert W. Watson

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References

1. "1878 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "2015 Yale Football" (PDF). yalebulldogs.com. Yale Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
3. "Football—College Championship Game Between Yale And Trinity". New York Herald . New York, New York. November 10, 1878. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
4. "Football—Game Between The Amhersts And The Yales—Yale The Victor". New York Herald . New York, New York. November 3, 1878. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
5. "1878 Trinity vs. Yale Football Program". Football of Yore. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
6. "College Sports—The Yale-Trinity Foot-Ball Game". Hartford Courant . Hartford, Connecticut. November 14, 1878. p. 2. Retrieved March 27, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
7. "Amherst And Yale—The Second Match Between These Players A Draw". New York Herald . New York, New York. November 17, 1878. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
8. "Football—Yale And Harvard Teams—Play For The College Championship—An Exciting Game—Yale The Winner". New York Herald . New York, New York. November 24, 1878. p. 10. Retrieved March 27, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
9. "A Match of Ball Between the Colleges". The Daily Constitution . Atlanta, Georgia. November 24, 1878. p. 1. Retrieved March 27, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
10. "Princeton Defeats Yale". The New York Times . New York, New York. November 29, 1878. p. 8. Retrieved March 27, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
11. "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.