1907 Yale Bulldogs football team

1907 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
Conference	Independent
Record	9–0–1
Head coach	William F. Knox (1st season)
Captain	Lucius Horatio Bigelow
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ←  1906 1908  →

1907 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	1
Dartmouth			–					8	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					11	–	1	–	0
Carlisle			–					10	–	1	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	0	–	2
Fordham			–					6	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					8	–	2	–	0
Western U. of Penn.			–					8	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	2	–	1
Lehigh			–					7	–	2	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	2	–	0
Army			–					6	–	2	–	1
NYU			–					5	–	2	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	1	–	2
Harvard			–					7	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	1
Drexel			–					3	–	2	–	2
Colgate			–					4	–	4	–	1
Geneva			–					4	–	5	–	2
Dickinson			–					3	–	4	–	2
Amherst			–					3	–	4	–	1
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	6	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	5	–	1
Springfield Training School			–					2	–	4	–	2
Bucknell			–					4	–	7	–	0
New Hampshire			–					1	–	5	–	2
Villanova			–					1	–	5	–	1
Holy Cross			–					1	–	7	–	2
Wesleyan			–					1	–	7	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					1	–	8	–	0

The 1907 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 10. ^[1] William F. Knox was the head coach, and Lucius Horatio Bigelow was the team captain.

Yale was ranked first in the nation by Caspar Whitney in January 1908. ^[2] The team was additionally later retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, the National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis. ^[3]

Four Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1907 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Tad Jones; fullback Ted Coy; end Clarence Alcott; and tackle Lucius Horatio Biglow. ^[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 25–0		[5]
October 5	Syracuse	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 11–0		[6]
October 9	Springfield Training School	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 18–0		[7] [8]
October 12	Holy Cross	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 52–0		[9]
October 19	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	T 0–0	10,000	[10]
October 26	Villanova	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 45–0		[11]
November 2	Washington & Jefferson	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 11–0		[12]
November 9	Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–0		[13]
November 16	Princeton	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 12–10	34,000	[14]
November 23	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 12–0	40,000	[15]

^[1]

Roster

• Clarence Alcott, E
• Roderick Beebe, E
• George R. Berger, HB
• Alfred A. Biddle, E
• Lucius Horatio Biglow, T
• Boggs, G
• William P. Bomar, HB
• Arthur Brides, G
• Walter L. Brown, G
• Robert Burch, E
• T. Burke, E
• Edward C. Congdon, C
• Carroll Cooney, C
• Ted Coy, FB
• Tyson M. Dines, QB
• Noel M. S. Dunbar, T
• Graham Foster, T
• William Goebel, G
• Hagan, E
• Howard Jones, QB
• Tad Jones, QB
• Howard Linn, E
• Mitchell, HB
• Fred J. Murphy, HB
• H. Ray Paige, T
• Stephen Philbin, HB
• Pigott, E
• Thornton, T
• H. M. Wheaton, HB
• Edward A. G. Wylie, FB

^[16]

References

1. "1907 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. Whitney, Caspar (January 1908). Whitney, Caspar (ed.). "The View-Point: Team Ranking 1907". The Outing Magazine . Vol. LI, no. 4. Outing Publishing Company. pp. 495–498, 514–516. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
3. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
4. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
5. "Yale Beats Wesleyan". New York Tribune. October 3, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale Forced To Limit: Syracuse Fights Hard". New York Tribune. October 6, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Yale Eleven Defeats Springfield 18 To 0". Journal Courier . New Haven, Connecticut. October 10, 1907. p. 9. Retrieved March 28, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
8. "Springfield Team Easy for Yale Men". The New York Times. October 10, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Yale Has Easy Time Against Holy Cross". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. October 13, 1907. p. S2 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Cadets Surprised Yale at Football". The New York Times. October 20, 1907. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Yale 45, Villanova 0". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved November 7, 2021– via Newspapers.com .
12. "Yale's Hard Task: New Haven Finds It Difficult to Beat Washington and Jefferson". The New York Times. November 3, 1907. p. 30 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Yale Outplays Brown: Scores Four Times". New York Tribune. November 10, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "The Yale-Princeton Game at New Haven: Yale's Football Triumph". New York Tribune. November 17, 1907. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Yale's Greatest Football Season Closes with a Victory Over Harvard at Cambridge Yesterday: Yale Vanquishes Harvard, 12 to 0". The New York Times. November 24, 1907. pp. 29, 30 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.