1904 Yale Bulldogs football team

1904 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	10–1
Head coach	Charles D. Rafferty (1st season)
Captain	James Hogan
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ←  1903 1905  →

1904 Eastern college football independents records

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

The 1904 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1904 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 10–1 record under first-year head coach Charles D. Rafferty. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 220 to 20 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Army. ^[1]

Four Yale players (quarterback Foster Rockwell, end Tom Shevlin, tackle James Hogan, and guard Ralph Kinney) were consensus picks for the 1904 College Football All-America Team. ^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–0		[3]
October 1	Trinity (CT)	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 42–0
October 5	Holy Cross	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 23–0
October 8	Penn State	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 24–0
October 12	Springfield Training School	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 6–0	100	[4] [5]
October 15	Syracuse	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 17–9		[6]
October 22	at Army	West Point, NY	L 6–11		[7]
October 29	at Columbia	American League Park New York, NY	W 34–0		[8]
November 5	Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–0
November 12	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 12–0
November 19	Harvard	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 12–0		[9]

Roster

• James Bloomer, T
• John M. Cates, E
• Arthur G. Erwin, G
• Carl S. Flanders
• A. Rex Flinn, FB
• Gilles, G
• Morin S. Hare, E
• James Hogan, T
• Lydig Hoyt, HB
• Guy Hutchinson, QB
• Willard Hyatt
• James P. Kineon, T
• Ralph Kinney, G
• Kockenberger, G
• Jack Leavenworth, HB
• Donald F. MacKay
• P. Morse, FB
• Frank McCoy
• Samuel Finley Brown Morse, HB
• Chester T. Neal, E
• Ortmayer, E
• Jack Owsley
• James John Quill, HB
• Foster Rockwell, QB
• Howard Roome, HB
• J. Clinton Roraback, C
• Carleton Shaw
• Tom Shevlin, FB
• John A. Stevenson, HB
• Stewart, E
• Charles B. Stuart
• Roswell Tripp, G
• H. Turner, G
• Paul Veeder, HB
• Frank E. Warnecken
• Edwin White, FB

^[10]

References

1. "1904 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. "Eli Eleven Made Several Blunders". The Day. September 29, 1904. p. 2.
4. "Close Call For Yale". Hartford Courant . Hartford, Connecticut. October 13, 1904. p. 2. Retrieved March 28, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
5. "Holds Yale To 6-0 Score". Chicago Tribune . Chicago, Illinois. October 13, 1904. p. 8. Retrieved March 28, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
6. "The Football Scores". The Troy Northern Budget. October 16, 1904. p. 2.
7. "Yale Meets Defeat". The Troy Northern Budget. October 23, 1904. p. 2.
8. "Columbia Overwhelmed By The Yale Eleven". The New York Times. October 30, 1904. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Harvard-Yale Football Game". Easton Free Press. November 19, 1904. p. 1.
10. "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.