1881 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1881 Yale Bulldogs football
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National champion (NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–0–1
Head coach
  • None
Home stadium Hamilton Park
Seasons
←  1880
1882  →
1881 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Richmond  – 2 –0 –0
Georgetown  – 1 –0 –0
Yale  – 5 –0 –1
Princeton  – 7 –0 –2
Penn State  – 1 –0 –0
Columbian University  – 1 –0 –1
Dartmouth  – 1 –0 –1
Harvard  – 6 –1 –1
Massachusetts  – 2 –1 –1
Kentucky University  – 2 –1 –0
Columbia  – 3 –3 –1
Rutgers  – 2 –4 –1
Stevens  – 1 –2 –1
Kentucky State College  – 1 –2 –0
CCNY  – 1 –1 –1
Amherst  – 0 –3 –2
Lewisburg  – 0 –1 –0
MIT  – 0 –1 –0
Wesleyan  – 0 –1 –0
Randolph–Macon  – 0 –2 –0
Michigan  – 0 –3 –0
Penn  – 0 –5 –0

The 1881 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1881 college football season. The team compiled a 5–0–1 record, did not allow opposing teams to score a single point, outscored all opponents, 10-0, and was retroactively named co-national champions by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis. [1] [2]

Contents

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 292:30 p.m.at Amherst Amherst, MA W 2–0 [3]
November 2 Michigan
W 2–0600 [4]
November 5Amherst
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 4–0 [5]
November 122:40 p.m. Harvard
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT (rivalry)
W 1–01,500 [6]
November 16at Columbia
W 1–0 [7]
November 24vs. Princeton
T 0–010,000 [8]

[2]

Roster

Source: [9]

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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. 1 2 "1881 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Yale and Amherst at Foot-Ball". The New York Times. October 31, 1881. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "College Foot-Ball". The New York Times. November 3, 1881. p. 8.
  5. ↑ "Yale Against Amherst". The New York Times. November 6, 1881. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Yale Overcomes Harvard". The New York Times. November 13, 1881. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Pretty Lively Football: Yale Defeats Columbia After a Long and Hot Battle". The Sun. November 17, 1881. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Princeton Faces Yale: Playing Foot-Ball in a Freezing Wind". The New York Times. November 25, 1881. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 82.
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