1915 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1915 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
CaptainAlexander D. Wilson
Home stadium Yale Bowl
Seasons
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1916  →
1915 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Cornell  – 9 –0 –0
Pittsburgh  – 8 –0 –0
Columbia  – 5 –0 –0
Harvard  – 8 –1 –0
Carnegie Tech  – 7 –1 –0
Rutgers  – 7 –1 –0
Villanova  – 6 –1 –0
Washington & Jefferson  – 8 –1 –1
Colgate  – 5 –1 –0
Syracuse  – 9 –1 –2
Dartmouth  – 7 –1 –1
Tufts  – 5 –1 –2
Penn State  – 7 –2 –0
Lafayette  – 8 –3 –0
Princeton  – 6 –2 –0
Franklin & Marshall  – 6 –2 –0
Temple  – 3 –1 –1
Geneva  – 6 –3 –0
Wesleyan  – 6 –3 –0
Allegheny  – 5 –3 –0
Swarthmore  – 5 –3 –0
Army  – 5 –3 –1
Lehigh  – 6 –4 –0
Holy Cross  – 3 –2 –2
Brown  – 5 –4 –1
Fordham  – 4 –4 –0
NYU  – 4 –4 –1
Middlebury  – 3 –4 –2
Muhlenberg  – 4 –5 –0
Yale  – 4 –5 –0
Boston College  – 3 –4 –0
Penn  – 3 –5 –2
WPI  – 3 –5 –1
Buffalo  – 3 –5 –0
Carlisle  – 3 –6 –2
Rhode Island State  – 3 –5 –0
New Hampshire  – 3 –6 –1
Gettysburg  – 3 –6 –0
Rochester  – 3 –6 –0
Bucknell  – 2 –6 –3
Vermont  – 1 –4 –2
Williams  – 1 –7 –0

The 1915 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1915 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 4–5 record under second-year head coach Frank Hinkey. [1] It was the first losing season in Yale Bulldogs football history. [2] No Yale player was a consensus All-American, though guard Clinton Black was selected as a first-team player by New York sports writer Monty on his 1915 College Football All-America Team. [3]

Contents

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 Maine
W 37–0 [4]
October 2 Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–10 [5]
October 9 Lehigh
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–6 [6]
October 16 Springfield
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0 [7]
October 23 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–16 [8]
October 30 Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–15 [9]
November 6 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–3 [10]
November 13 Princeton
W 13–765,000 [11]
November 20at Harvard
L 0–4149,000 [12]

Roster

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References

  1. ↑ "1915 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Yale Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 13, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Monty Picks All-Star Team: Maulbetsch of Michigan Lands on Second Eleven; He is Only 'Westerner' to Be Honored by the Writer". Fort Wayne News. December 4, 1915.
  4. ↑ "Yale Crushes Maine Eleven by Open Play". The Sun. September 26, 1915. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Virginia Blanks Yale with New Haven Tricks". The Sun. October 3, 1915. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Yale Beats Lehigh by a Single Point". The New York Times. October 10, 1915. p. Sports 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Old Eli's Team Wins Easily: Yale Sweeps Over Springfield Team". The Hartford Courant. October 17, 1915. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Yale Beaten Again: Brilliant Passes Work Yale's Defeat". The Hartford Courant. October 24, 1915. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Colgate Humbles Yale Eleven". The New York Times. October 31, 1915. p. Sports 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Yale Disappointing; Humbled by Brown". The New York Times. November 7, 1915. p. 38 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Yale, Roused, Beats Tigers by 13 to 7". New York Tribune. November 14, 1915. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Harvard Rips Yale to Bits; Wins 41 to 0". New York Tribune. November 21, 1915. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
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