1883 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1883 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
  • None
Captain Ray Tompkins
Home stadium Hamilton Park
Seasons
←  1882
1884  →
1883 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale  – 9 –0 –0
Gallaudet  – 2 –0 –0
Carleton  – 1 –0 –0
Johns Hopkins  – 1 –0 –0
NYU  – 1 –0 –0
Harvard  – 8 –2 –0
Princeton  – 7 –1 –0
Penn  – 6 –2 –1
Stevens  – 6 –4 –1
Massachusetts  – 1 –1 –0
Minnesota  – 1 –1 –0
Wesleyan  – 3 –3 –0
Williams  – 1 –1 –0
Fordham  – 4 –5 –0
Michigan  – 2 –3 –0
Lafayette  – 2 –4 –0
Johns Hopkins  – 1 –2 –0
Columbia  – 1 –3 –0
Rutgers  – 1 –6 –0
Amherst  – 0 –1 –0
Dartmouth  – 0 –1 –0
Hamline  – 0 –1 –0
Lewisburg  – 0 –1 –0
Navy  – 0 –1 –0
CCNY  – 0 –2 –0
Columbian University  – 0 –2 –0
Georgetown  – 0 –2 –0

The 1883 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1883 college football season. The team compiled a 9–0 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 540 to 2. [1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis. [2]

Contents

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 Wesleyan
W 58–0
September 29at Wesleyan Middletown, CT W 90–0
October 6 Stevens
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 59–0 [3]
November 63:20 p.m.vs. Rutgers
W 92–0nearly 1,000 [4] [5]
November 14 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn, NYW 49–0
November 17vs. Columbia
W 93–0400–500 [6]
November 21 Michigan
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 64–0400
November 242:15 p.m.vs. Princeton
W 6–05,000–6,000 [7]
November 292:37 p.m.vs. Harvard
W 23–2nearly 10,000 [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "1883 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Yale vs. Stevens Institute". The Harvard Crimson. October 12, 1883.
  4. ↑ "The Yale-Rutgers Football Game". Morning Journal and Courier . New Haven, Connecticut. November 7, 1883. p. 3. Retrieved August 10, 2024– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
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