1891 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1891 Yale Bulldogs football
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National champion
IFA champion
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
Record13–0 ( IFA)
Head coach
Captain Lee McClung
Home stadium Yale Field
Seasons
←  1890
1892  →
1891 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale  – 13 –0 –0
Harvard  – 13 –1 –0
Princeton  – 12 –1 –0
Tufts  – 7 –1 –0
Penn  – 11 –2 –0
Colgate  – 4 –1 –0
Army  – 4 –1 –1
Bucknell  – 6 –2 –1
Navy  – 5 –2 –0
Cornell  – 7 –3 –0
Geneva  – 4 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson  – 4 –2 –0
Lehigh  – 7 –4 –0
Rutgers  – 8 –6 –0
Brown  – 4 –6 –0
Springfield YMCA  – 5 –8 –1
Fordham  – 1 –2 –1
Syracuse  – 4 –7 –0
Massachusetts  – 2 –5 –0
Western Univ. Penn.  – 2 –6 –0
Lafayette  – 2 –9 –1
NYU  – 1 –4 –0
Columbia  – 1 –5 –0
Wesleyan  – 1 –6 –0

The 1891 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 13–0 record and a 488-0 season score. It was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis. [1] [2] Yale's 1891 season was part of a 37-game winning streak that began with the final game of the 1890 season and stopped at the end of the 1893 season.

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Five Yale players were selected by Caspar Whitney to the 1891 All-America college football team: halfback and team captain Lee McClung; ends Frank Hinkey and John A. Hartwell; tackle Wallace Winter; and guard Pudge Heffelfinger. [3] Camp also selected the following Yale players to his second team: quarterback Frank Barbour; halfback Laurie Bliss; guard Samuel Morison; and center George Sanford. [4]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30 Wesleyan
W 28–0
October 3at Crescent Athletic Club
W 26–03,000 [5]
October 7at Trinity (CT) Hartford, CT W 36–0
October 10vs. Williams
W 46–0 [6]
October 14 Springfield YMCA
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–0500 [7]
October 243:30 p.m.at Orange Athletic Club
W 36–02,700 [8] [9]
October 31 Lehigh
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 38–0
November 3Crescent Athletic Club
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 70–05,600 [10]
November 7Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 76–0
November 112:30 p.m. Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–0350 [11]
November 14vs. Penn
W 48–0
November 21vs. Harvard
W 10–020,000 [12]
November 26vs. Princeton
W 19–040,000 [13]

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Roster

Game summaries

YMCA Training School

On October 14, 1891, Yale defeated the team from the YMCA Training School by a score of 28–0 before a crowd of 500 persons at Yale Field in New Haven, Connecticut. Yale alumnus Amos Alonzo Stagg was the coach of the YMCA team and also played at the halfback position. Pudge Heffelfinger scored three touchdowns, and Lee McClung kicked three goals after touchdown. Halfback and team captain Lee McClung suffered a broken thumb in the game. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "1891 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ "2009 Yale Football Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. p. 77.
  5. ↑ "Yale Defeats Crescents". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 4, 1891. p. 7. Retrieved May 20, 2020– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  6. ↑ "YALE SUPERIOR TO WILLIAMS". The New York Times . October 11, 1891. p. 2. Retrieved August 2, 2020– via nytimes.com.
  7. 1 2 "Yale Given A Hard Tussle: Capt. McClung Badly Injured in Game With Stagg's Eleven". The Boston Daily Globe. October 15, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "In The Football Field". The New York Times . New York, New York. October 25, 1891. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  9. ↑ "Yale Collegians Score 46 Points and Fail at Kicking Goals". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York. October 25, 1891. p. 16. Retrieved March 25, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  10. ↑ "Lively Kickers: How the Amateur Athletes Observed Election". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 4, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Yale Men Knocked Out". The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1891. p. 3. Retrieved March 23, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  12. ↑ "Yale 10, Harvard 0: And The Great Match Is Over". The Evening World. November 21, 1891. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Yale Still Triumphant: Princeton Beaten on Manhattan Field by a Score of 19 to 0". The Sun (New York). November 27, 1891. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
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