1900 Yale Bulldogs football team

1900 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
Conference	Independent
1900 record	12–0
Head coach	Malcolm McBride (1st season)
Captain	Gordon Brown
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ←  1899 1901  →

1900 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					12	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	1	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	2	–	1
Princeton			–					8	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					5	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Columbia			–					7	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					5	–	2	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	3	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	3	–	2
Holy Cross			–					5	–	3	–	1
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	1
Dickinson			–					5	–	4	–	0
Western Univ. of Penn			–					5	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	6	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	5	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	4	–	1
Penn State			–					4	–	6	–	1
Amherst			–					4	–	7	–	1
Dartmouth			–					2	–	4	–	2
NYU			–					3	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					3	–	6	–	1
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire			–					1	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	8	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	0

The 1900 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. The team finished with a 12–0 record, shut out ten of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 336 to 10. ^[1] Malcolm McBride was the head coach, and Gordon Brown was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1906 for determining a national champion. However, Yale has been retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis. ^[2]

Seven Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1900 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback William Fincke; halfback George B. Chadwick; fullback Perry Hale; center Herman Olcott; guard Gordon Brown; and tackles George S. Stillman and James Bloomer. ^[3]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29		Trinity (CT)	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–0		[4]
October 3		Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 27–0	1,500	[5]
October 6		Tufts	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 30–0	2,300	[6]
October 10		Bates	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 50–0		[7]
October 13	3:15 p.m.	vs. Dartmouth	Cedar St. grounds Newton, MA	W 17–0		[8]
October 17		Bowdoin	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 30–0		[9]
October 20		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 38–0	4,000	[10]
October 27		at Columbia	Columbia Field New York, NY	W 12–5	8,000	[11] [12]
November 3		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 18–0		[13]
November 10		Carlisle	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 35–0		[14]
November 17	2:45 p.m.	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 29–5		[15] [16] [17]
November 24		Harvard	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 28–0	20,000	[18] [19]
All times are in Eastern time

References

1. "1900 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
3. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
4. "Yale Played a Good Game: Trinity Defeated 23 to 0 -- The Blue Almost Scored On". The Philadelphia Times. September 30, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Yale Beats Amherst 27 to 0". The Hartford Courant. October 4, 1900. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale 30, Tufts 0". The Boston Globe. October 7, 1900. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Yale Wins From Bates". New Haven Morning Journal and Courier. October 11, 1900. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Yale 17; Dartmouth 0". New York Tribune. October 14, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Yale Runs Up Big Score". The Boston Globe. October 18, 1900. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Shock For Yale: Wesleyan Boys Got to Her 15-Yard Line". The Boston Globe. October 21, 1900. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Columbia's Mighty Stand". New York Tribune. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Columbia's Game Fight". The Sun. October 28, 1900 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Yale in the Dumps: Slump Has Overwhelmed the Eleven of Giants". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1900. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Great Is Eli: Yale Piles Up 35 Points Against Carlisle". The Boston Globe. November 11, 1900. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Yale Scores 29, Princeton 5". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 1900. pp. 1, 15 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Yale Buries Princeton: Sons of Eli Score 29 to 5 by the Tigers". The New York Times. November 18, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
17. "Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Yale 28, Harvard 0: Blues Outclass Crimsons in All Departments of Football". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1900. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
19. "Yale Football Champions of 1900: Harvard Beaten in the Annual Game at New Haven". The New York Times. November 25, 1900. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.