1896 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1896 Yale Bulldogs football
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Head coach
Captain Fred T. Murphy
Home stadium Yale Field
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1896 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Fordham  – 1 –0 –0
Lafayette  – 11 –0 –1
Princeton  – 10 –0 –1
Washington & Jefferson  – 8 –0 –1
Penn  – 14 –1 –0
Yale  – 13 –1 –0
Pittsburgh College  – 11 –2 –0
Buffalo  – 9 –1 –2
Villanova  – 10 –4 –0
Bucknell  – 5 –2 –1
Harvard  – 7 –4 –0
Boston College  – 5 –3 –0
Storrs  – 5 –3 –0
Cornell  – 5 –3 –1
Syracuse  – 5 –3 –2
Temple  – 3 –2 –0
Army  – 3 –2 –1
Rutgers  – 6 –6 –0
Carlisle  – 5 –5 –0
Holy Cross  – 2 –2 –2
Brown  – 4 –5 –1
Wesleyan  – 4 –5 –1
Dickinson  – 4 –5 –0
Frankin & Marshall  – 3 –4 –2
Geneva  – 3 –4 –0
Penn State  – 3 –4 –0
Colgate  – 3 –4 –1
Amherst  – 3 –6 –1
Western Univ. Penn.  – 3 –6 –0
Lehigh  – 2 –5 –0
Tufts  – 2 –6 –1
Swarthmore  – 2 –6 –0
New Hampshire  – 1 –4 –0
Drexel  – 1 –5 –0
Massachusetts  – 0 –4 –0
Rhode Island  – 0 –4 –0

The 1896 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1896 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 13–1 record under first-year head coach Sam Thorne. The team recorded nine shutouts and won its first 13 games by a combined 212 to 29 score. It then lost its final game against rival Princeton by a 24–6 score. [1]

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Two Yale players, quarterback Clarence Fincke and tackle Fred T. Murphy, were consensus picks for the 1896 College Football All-America Team. [2] Leslie's Weekly also picked three other Yale players (ends Lyman Bass and Louis Hinkey and center Burr Chamberlain) as 1896 first-team All-America players. [3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26at Trinity (CT) Hartford, CT W 6–0 [4]
September 30 Amherst
W 12–0 [5]
October 7 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–01,800 [6] [7]
October 10vs. Orange Athletic Club
W 12–01,000 [8]
October 14 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0 [9]
October 17 Dartmouth
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 42–0 [10]
October 21 Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0 [11]
October 24vs. Carlisle
W 12–65,000 [12]
October 28 Elizabeth Athletic Club
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–6 [13]
October 31at Army
W 16–2 [14]
November 3 Boston Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 10–02,500 [15]
November 7at Brown
W 18–62,500 [16] [17]
November 14 New Jersey Athletic Club
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0 [18]
November 21 Princeton
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY (rivalry)
L 6–2435,000–50,000 [19] [20]

Roster

[21]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. ↑ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
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  5. ↑ "Amherst Gives Yale a Hard Tussle". Boston Post. October 1, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
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  13. ↑ "Close Formation Plays Give Yale a Surprise: Elizabeth A. C. Scores Six Points, and the Blue Goes Them Six Points Better". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 29, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
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  18. ↑ "Yale Held Down: Scored But Sixteen Points Against the New Jersey Athletic Club". Washington Times. November 15, 1896. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ "Nassau Beats Eli: Princeton Football Players Bowled Over Yale's Warriors and Won Easily on Manhattan Field". The New York Times. November 22, 1896. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
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