1914 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1914 Yale Bulldogs football
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ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
Captain Bud Talbott
Home stadium Yale Field
Yale Bowl
Seasons
  1913
1915  
1914 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Army   9 0 0
Harvard   7 0 2
Washington & Jefferson   10 1 0
Dartmouth   8 1 0
Lehigh   8 1 0
Pittsburgh   8 1 0
Cornell   8 2 0
Yale   7 2 0
Franklin & Marshall   6 2 1
Colgate   5 2 1
Princeton   5 2 1
Brown   5 2 2
Fordham   6 3 1
Geneva   5 3 0
Tufts   5 3 0
Penn State   5 3 1
Rutgers   5 3 1
Lafayette   5 3 2
Syracuse   5 3 2
Boston College   5 4 0
NYU   5 4 0
Villanova   4 3 1
Bucknell   4 4 1
Carnegie Tech   4 4 0
Penn   4 4 1
Temple   3 3 0
Rhode Island State   2 3 3
Carlisle   5 10 1
Holy Cross   2 5 1
Vermont   2 6 1
New Hampshire   1 6 2
Duquesne   1 5 0

The 1914 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1914 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 7–2 record under first-year head coach Frank Hinkey. [1]

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Fullback Harry LeGore was a consensus All-American, and tackle Bud Talbottt also received first-team All-America honors from multiple selectors.

The Yale Bowl opened on November 21; the inaugural game was against rival Harvard, a 36–0 loss with a crowd of between 68,000 and 71,000 in attendance. [2] [3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 Maine W 20–0
October 3 Virginia
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–0 [4]
October 10 Lehigh
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–3
October 17 Notre Dame
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–0
October 24 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–13 [5]
October 31 Colgate
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 49–7
November 7 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–6
November 14at Princeton W 19–14 [6]
November 21 Harvard
L 0–3671,000 [2]

Roster

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References

  1. "1914 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Harvard Buries Yale In New Bowl: Pile Up 36 Points and Shut Out Yale". The Hartford Courant. November 22, 1914. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.(reporting crowd size of 71,000)
  3. "Greatest football crowd ever, sees big match". The Day. New London, Connecticut. November 21, 1914. p. 13.(reporting crowd size of 68,117)
  4. "Virginia keeps Yale moving". The Springfield Daily Republican. October 4, 1914. Retrieved July 2, 2024 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Wash-Jeff Defeats Yale". The Pittsburg Press. October 25, 1914. p. Sport 2.
  6. "Yale's Open Game Proves Its Worth". The Hartford Courant. November 15, 1914. pp. I-1, IV-2 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved February 2, 2025.