1893 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1893 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1
Head coach
Captain Frank Hinkey
Home stadium Yale Field
Seasons
←  1892
1894  →
1893 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton  – 11 –0 –0
Fordham  – 4 –0 –0
Harvard  – 12 –1 –0
Yale  – 10 –1 –0
Colgate  – 3 –0 –2
Penn  – 12 –3 –0
Penn State  – 4 –1 –0
Wesleyan  – 4 –1 –0
Holy Ghost  – 6 –2 –0
Swarthmore  – 6 –2 –1
Lehigh  – 7 –3 –0
Brown  – 6 –3 –0
Carlisle  – 2 –1 –0
Frankin & Marshall  – 4 –2 –1
Navy  – 5 –3 –0
Washington & Jefferson  – 5 –3 –0
Drexel  – 3 –2 –0
Bucknell  – 4 –3 –0
Amherst  – 7 –6 –1
Boston College  – 3 –3 –0
Geneva  – 2 –2 –1
Army  – 4 –5 –0
Williams  – 2 –3 –1
Tufts  – 4 –7 –0
Cornell  – 3 –6 –1
Worcester Tech  – 2 –4 –1
Boston University  – 1 –2 –0
Lafayette  – 3 –6 –0
Syracuse  – 4 –9 –1
Western Penn  – 1 –4 –0
MIT  – 1 –5 –0
Massachusetts  – 1 –9 –0
New Hampshire  – 0 –1 –0
Rutgers  – 0 –4 –0
Maine  – 0 –5 –0

The 1893 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1893 college football season. The team finished with a 10–1 record and, despite losing to Princeton, was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis. [1] [2] Yale's 1893 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.

Contents

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4 Brown
W 18–0 [3]
October 7at Crescent Athletic Club
W 16–02,000 [4]
October 14 Dartmouth
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–0800–1,200 [5] [6]
October 18 Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0
October 21at Orange Athletic Club
W 50–02,000 [7]
October 25 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 82–0
October 28at Army
W 28–0
November 7at New York Athletic Club
W 42–0
November 11vs. Penn
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 14–6
November 25vs. Harvard
W 6–0
November 30vs. Princeton
L 0–6

[2]

Roster

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 "1893 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Opened The Football Season Today". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 5, 1893. p. 2. Retrieved March 8, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  4. ↑ "Crescents' Good Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 8, 1893. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Mass Plays On The Tackles". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 15, 1893. p. 4. Retrieved March 21, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  6. ↑ "Battered At Yale's Centre". The New York Times . New York, New York. October 15, 1893. p. 3. Retrieved March 21, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  7. ↑ "Yale Shows Up Strong: Orange Athletic Club Badly Beaten -- Score, 50 to 0". Boston Sunday Post. October 22, 1893. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
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