1908 Yale Bulldogs football team

1908 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–1–1
Head coach	Lucius Horatio Biglow (1st season)
Captain	Robert Burch
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ←  1907 1909  →

1908 Eastern college football independents records

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

The 1908 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1908 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 7–1–1 record under first-year head coach Lucius Horatio Biglow. ^[1]

Three Yale players, fullback Ted Coy and guards Hamlin Andrus and William Goebel, were consensus picks for the 1908 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 30	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 16–0	[2]
October 3	Syracuse	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 5–0	[3]
October 10	Holy Cross	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 18–0
October 17	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 6–0	[4]
October 24	Washington & Jefferson	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 38–0
October 31	Massachusetts	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 49–0
November 7	Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	T 10–10	[5]
November 14	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 11–6	[6]
November 21	Harvard	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–4	[7]

Roster

• Hamlin Andrus, G
• Alfred A. Biddle, C
• Henry P. Bingham, QB
• Arthur Brides, HB
• Walter L. Brown, G
• Robert Burch, E
• Carroll Cooney, T
• Allan L. Corey, QB
• Ted Coy, FB
• Fred Daly, HB
• John Field, FB
• William Goebel, G
• George Hains, FB
• Hayes, E
• Henry Hobbs, T
• Hopkins, QB
• Hyde, C
• James F. Johnson, QB
• John Kilpatrick, E
• Theodore Lilley, T
• Walter S. Logan, E
• Fred J. Murphy, HB
• Theodore C. Naedele, E
• Stephen Philbin, HB
• Richardson, G
• Warren, E
• H. M. Wheaton, QB

Yale was shut out by Harvard, 0-4.

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References

1. "1908 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "Yale's 16 Wesleyan 0". Meriden Morning Record. October 1, 1908. p. 2.
3. "Brown Won From Colgate By A 6-0 Score". Evening Tribune. October 4, 1908. p. 6.
4. "Licky Penalty Gives Blue Chance to Score". The Day. October 19, 1908. p. 10.
5. "Plucky Brown Holds Old Eli Down 10 to 10; Russell M'Kay, Rayen Man, is Star of Game". The Sunday Vindicator. November 8, 1908. p. 9.
6. "Yale Beats the Tigers; Sons of Old Eli Win Annual Football Battle". The Troy Northern Budget. November 15, 1908. p. 2.
7. Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 22, 1908). "Crimson Triumphs: Yale Outplayed and Beaten, 4 to 0; Kennard Gets Field Goal Late in First Half". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.