1886 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1886 Yale Bulldogs football
Yale Bulldogs (1886 team picture).jpg
National champion (Helms, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
IFA co-champion
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
Record9–0–1 ( IFA)
Head coach
  • None
CaptainRobert Corwin
Home stadium Yale Field
Seasons
←  1885
1887  →
1886 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale  – 9 –0 –1
Princeton  – 7 –0 –1
Harvard  – 12 –2 –0
Lafayette  – 10 –2 –0
Williams  – 5 –1 –1
Massachusetts  – 2 –1 –0
Penn  – 9 –7 –1
Lehigh  – 4 –3 –1
Dartmouth  – 2 –2 –0
Amherst  – 3 –4 –0
Rutgers  – 1 –3 –0
Wesleyan  – 2 –6 –0
MIT  – 2 –6 –1
Vermont  – 0 –1 –0
Stevens  – 0 –7 –1
Tufts  – 0 –8 –0
NYU  – 0 –3 –0
Swarthmore  –  – 
Trinity (CT)  –  – 

The 1886 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as a member of the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) during the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 687 to 4. [1] Robert Corwin was the team captain.

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There was no contemporaneous system in 1887 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. [2]

On Thanksgiving Day in Princeton, New Jersey, undefeated teams from Yale and Princeton met. The game started late due to the absence of a referee, and heavy rain caused the game to be called on account of darkness with Yale leading 4–0 in the second half. Under the rules of the time, the game was declared "no contest" by the substitute referee, and the final score was declared to be 0–0. After a special meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association held to review the game, the Association issued a two-part resolution: that (1) Yale should have been acknowledged the winner, but that (2) under their existing rules, the Association did not have the authority to award the game to them. [3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6 Wesleyan
W 75–0
October 9at Wesleyan Middletown, CT W 62–0
October 16 MIT
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 96–0
October 20at Stevens Hoboken, NJ W 54–0 [4]
October 23at Williams Williamstown, MA W 76–0
October 30Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 136–0 [5] [6]
November 2at Crescent Athletic Club
W 82–0 [7]
November 13 Penn
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 75–0 [8]
November 202:30 p.m.at Harvard
W 29–4> 6,000 [9] [10]
November 253:30 p.m.at Princeton Princeton, NJ (rivalry)T 0–0> 6,000 [11]

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Roster

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References

  1. 1 2 "1886 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ 1886 Yale University football scores and results Archived July 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine . College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 16, 2014.
  3. ↑ "No Football Champions.; But Princeton Challenges Yale To Another Game On Saturday". The New York Times. November 28, 1886.
  4. ↑ "Yale 54—Stevens 0". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier . New Haven, Connecticut. October 21, 1886. p. 3. Retrieved March 24, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  5. ↑ "Beating the Record: Yale's Giants Score 136 Points Against the Wesleyan". The Boston Globe. October 31, 1886. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Yale Wins the First Game: She Easily Defeats the Wesleyan Football Team". The New York Times. October 31, 1886. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Brooklyn Against Yale: The College Boys Prove Themselves Superior at Football". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 3, 1886. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Yale Defeats Pennsylvania". The New York Times. November 14, 1886. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Again Yale Wins: Harvard's Eleven Out-played by the Veterans". The Boston Globe. November 21, 1886. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Harvard Beaten By Yale". The New York Times. November 21, 1886. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Yale Outplays Princeton: Weather Bad and Tempers Worse Make Trouble". The New York Times. November 26, 1886. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.
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