1887 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1887 Yale Bulldogs football
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National champion
IFA champion
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
Record9–0 ( IFA)
Head coach
  • None
Captain Harry Beecher
Home stadium Yale Field
Seasons
←  1886
1888  →
1887 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale  – 9 –0 –0
Penn State  – 2 –0 –0
Harvard  – 10 –1 –0
Lafayette  – 7 –2 –0
Princeton  – 7 –2 –0
Lehigh  – 4 –3 –0
Williams  – 3 –3 –0
Penn  – 6 –7 –0
Wesleyan  – 4 –5 –0
Tufts  – 4 –6 –0
Massachusetts  – 2 –3 –0
Rutgers  – 2 –6 –0
Bucknell  – 0 –2 –0
Cornell  – 0 –2 –0
Franklin & Marshall  – 0 –2 –0
Vermont  – 0 –2 –0

The 1887 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as a member of the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) during the 1887 college football season. The team compiled a perfect 9–0 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 515 to 12. [1] Quarterback Harry Beecher was the team's captain. [2]

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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 Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis. [3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5 Wesleyan
W 38–0 [4]
October 15at Wesleyan Middletown, CT W 106–0 [5]
October 22at Williams Williamstown, MA W 74–0 [6]
October 29at Penn
W 50–0 [7]
November 5 Rutgers
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 74–0 [8]
November 8vs. Crescent Athletic Club
W 70–0 [9]
November 12Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 68–4 [10]
November 19vs. Princeton
W 12–0 [11]
November 242:00 p.m.vs. Harvard
W 17–815,000 [12]

Roster

References

  1. 1 2 "1887 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Football at Yale: Football the Chief Topic on the Campus". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier. September 30, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Yale Victorious: First Game of the Season - Wesleyan Defeated in a Tame Game at the Yale Field". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier. October 6, 1897. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Yale Victorious: Overwhelming Defeat of Wesleyan's Foot Ball Team - Score, 106-0". The Boston Globe. October 16, 1887. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Yale, 74; Williams, 0". New York Tribune. October 23, 1887. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Yale Wins at Foot-Ball: The Pennsylvanians Defeated by a Score of 50 to 0". The Times-Philadelphia. October 30, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Yale's Heavy Rushers: Rutgers Easily Defeated, Seventy-four to Nothing". The Boston Globe. November 6, 1887. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Yale Foot Ball Kickers: Harry Beecher Helped Them Annihilate the Brookly Crescents". The Brooklyn Daily Eagles. November 9, 1887. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Yale Defeats Wesleyan". The Times-Philadelphia. November 13, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Yale Triumphs in the Mud". The Sun (New York). November 20, 1887. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Yale Outplays Harvard". The New York Times. November 25, 1887. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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