1884 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1884 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Helms, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0–1
Head coach
  • None
Captain Eugene Lamb Richards
Home stadium Yale Field
Seasons
←  1883
1885  →
1884 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton  – 9 –0 –1
Yale  – 8 –0 –1
Michigan  – 2 –0 –0
Williams  – 2 –0 –0
Navy  – 1 –0 –0
Wabash  – 1 –0 –0
Penn  – 5 –1 –1
Fordham  – 5 –1 –0
Harvard  – 7 –4 –0
Wesleyan  – 3 –2 –0
Butler  – 1 –1 –0
Columbia  – 1 –1 –0
Rutgers  – 3 –4 –0
Stevens  – 4 –5 –0
Dartmouth  – 1 –2 –1
Tufts  – 2 –4 –1
Massachusetts  – 1 –2 –0
Lafayette  – 2 –5 –0
Johns Hopkins  – 1 –3 –0
Albion  – 0 –1 –0
CCNY  – 0 –1 –0
Denver  – 0 –1 –0
DePauw  – 0 –1 –0
Olivet  – 0 –2 –0
Amherst  – 0 –3 –0
Lehigh  – 0 –4 –0

The 1884 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1884 college football season. The team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 495 to 10. [1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. [2]

Contents

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1 Wesleyan
W 31–0 [3]
October 11 Stevens
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 96–0
October 183:00 p.m.vs. Wesleyan
W 63–0 [4]
October 22at Rutgers New Brunswick, NJ W 76–10 [5]
October 25at Dartmouth Hanover, NH W 113–0 [6]
November 5Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0 [7]
November 19vs. Yale alumni
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–0 [8]
November 22 Harvard
W 52–02,400 [9]
November 27vs. Princeton
T 0–0over 10,000 [10]

Roster

[11]

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References

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