1890 Yale Bulldogs football team

1890 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	13–1
Head coach	Walter Camp (3rd season)
Captain	William Rhodes
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ←  1889 1891  →

1890 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					11	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					13	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					11	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					8	–	2	–	0
Navy			–					5	–	1	–	1
Penn			–					11	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					2	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	4	–	0
Springfield YMCA			–					5	–	3	–	0
Lehigh			–					6	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					5	–	5	–	1
Penn State			–					2	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					1	–	1	–	0
Wesleyan			–					5	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					2	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	4	–	0
Western Univ. Penn			–					1	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	5	–	1
Fordham			–					1	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					2	–	5	–	0
Bucknell			–					1	–	4	–	1
Massachusetts			–					1	–	4	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	5	–	1
Army			–					0	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	1	–	0

The 1890 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1890 college football season. In its third year under head coach Walter Camp, the team compiled a 13–1 record, recorded 12 shutouts, and outscored all opponents by a total of 486 to 18. Its only loss was to rival Harvard by a 12–6 score. ^[1]

Three Yale players (halfback Thomas McClung, guard Pudge Heffelfinger, and tackle William Rhodes) were consensus picks for the 1890 College Football All-America Team. ^[2] All three have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 1		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 8–0		[3]
October 4		at Crescent Athletic Club	Washington Park Brooklyn, NY	W 18–6	4,000	[4]
October 8		at Wesleyan	Middletown, CT	W 34–0		[5]
October 11		Lehigh	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 26–0		[6]
October 15		at Trinity (CT)	Hartford, CT	W 40–0	500	[7]
October 18		at Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval Orange, NJ	W 16–0		[8]
October 22		Williams	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 36–0		[9]
October 25		at Amherst	Amherst, MA	W 12–0		[10]
November 1		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 76–0		[11]
November 4		at Crescent Athletic Club	Washington Park Brooklyn, NY	W 52–0	8,000	[12]
November 8		Rutgers	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 70–0		[13]
November 15		Penn	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 60–0		[14]
November 22	2:30 p.m.	vs. Harvard	Hampden Park Springfield, MA (rivalry)	L 6–12	15,000–17,000	[15] [16] [17] [18]
November 27		vs. Princeton	Eastern Park Brooklyn, NY (rivalry)	W 32–0	10,000	[19] [20]

Roster

• William Adams, G
• Frank Barbour, QB
• Hugh Aiken Bayne, E
• Laurie Bliss, HB
• Ben Crosby, E
• Frank H. Funk, T
• John A. Hartwell, E
• Perry W. Harvey, FB
• Pudge Heffelfinger, G
• Harry C. Holcomb, C
• William M. Lewis, C
• Thomas McClung, HB
• Charles W. Mills, G
• B. Morrison, HB
• Stanford N. Morrison, G
• Adelbert L. Reynolds
• William Rhodes, T
• Erman J. Ridgway, E
• Alexander Hamilton Wallis, T
• Henry L. Williams, HB

^[21]

References

1. "1890 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
3. "The Season Opened At Yale". The Sun (New York). October 2, 1890. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Weak In The Rush Line: The Crescents Succumb to Yale's Foot Ball Team". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 5, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Yale 34, Wesleyan 0". The Hartford Courant. October 9, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale Defeats Lehigh". The Times (Philadelphia). October 12, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Yale, 40; Trinity, 0". The World (New York). October 16, 1890. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Yale Makes Sixteen Points". New York Tribune. October 19, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Yale Plays At Home". The New York Times. October 23, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Yale's Slender Victory Over Amherst". New York Tribune. October 26, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Wesleyan No Match For Yale". New York Tribune. November 2, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Yale's Victory". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 5, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Rhodes Went To See Harvard". The New York Times. November 9, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Yale Victorious: The "Varsity" Boys Meet With a Waterloo in New Haven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 16, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Crimson: Even Ladies, Who Blushed". The Boston Globe. November 23, 1890. pp. 1, 4.
16. "Coming of the Thousands". The Boston Globe. November 23, 1890. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
17. "Harvard's Jubilee: Her Team Defeats Yale in the Great Football Game at Springfield". New York Tribune. November 23, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Yale Whipped By Harvard". The Sun . New York, New York. November 23, 1890. p. 8. Retrieved March 26, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
19. "Yale's Blue Kickers Win". The Sun (New York). November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
20. "Fall of a Crowded Stand". The Sun (New York). November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
21. "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.