1916 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1916 Yale Bulldogs football
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ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
Captain Clinton Black
Home stadium Yale Bowl, Yale Field
Seasons
←  1915
1917  →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Army  – 9 –0 –0
Pittsburgh  – 8 –0 –0
Brown  – 8 –1 –0
Colgate  – 8 –1 –0
Yale  – 8 –1 –0
Fordham  – 6 –1 –1
Swarthmore  – 6 –1 –1
Penn State  – 8 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson  – 8 –2 –0
Boston College  – 6 –2 –0
Cornell  – 6 –2 –0
Princeton  – 6 –2 –0
Lehigh  – 6 –2 –1
Dartmouth  – 5 –2 –2
Harvard  – 7 –3 –0
Penn  – 7 –3 –1
Temple  – 3 –1 –2
Tufts  – 5 –3 –0
Carnegie Tech  – 4 –3 –0
Rutgers  – 3 –2 –2
NYU  – 4 –3 –1
Syracuse  – 5 –4 –0
Holy Cross  – 4 –5 –0
Vermont  – 4 –5 –0
Rhode Island State  – 3 –4 –1
New Hampshire  – 3 –5 –2
Geneva  – 2 –5 –2
Carlisle  – 1 –3 –1
Lafayette  – 2 –6 –1
Bucknell  – 3 –9 –0
Columbia  – 1 –5 –2
Franklin & Marshall  – 1 –7 –0
Villanova  – 1 –8 –0

The 1916 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1916 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Tad Jones. The team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 182 to 44 and suffered its only loss to Brown. [1] Yale guard Clinton Black was a consensus pick for the 1916 College Football All-America Team, and four other Yale players (ends Charles Comerford and George Moseley, halfback Harry LeGore, and a guard with the surname Fox) also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector in 1916. Black was the team's captain. [2]

Contents

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30 Carnegie Tech
W 25–0 [3]
October 7 Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 61–3 [4]
October 14 Lehigh
W 12–07,000 [5]
October 20 VPI
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–05,000 [6]
October 28 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–14 [7]
November 4 Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–3 [8]
November 11 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–21 [9]
November 18at Princeton
W 10–042,000 [10]
November 25 Harvard
W 6–3 [11]

Roster

[12]

References

  1. ↑ "1916 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Cupid Black Chosen Yale Football Captain for 1916". The Day (Afternoon ed.): 12. December 1, 1915.
  3. ↑ "Yale Opens Season by Beating Carnegie Tech". The Hartford Courant. October 1, 1916. p. 33 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Yale Crushes Virginia Beneath 61 to 3 Defeat". The Hartford Courant. October 8, 1916. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Harry Legore's Sensational Playing Features Yale Victory Over Lehigh". The Hartford Courant. October 15, 1916. p. Z3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Yale Substitutes Win From Virginia, 20 to 0". The Harford Courant. October 21, 1916. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Yale's Rush Line Shows Much Power: Washington and Jefferson Beaten by 36 to 14". The Boston Globe. October 29, 1916. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Yale Defeats Colgate 7 to 3". Boston Post. November 5, 1916. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Pollard, Brown's Wonderful Halfback, Shines Brightly in Brown's Second Conquest of Bulldog". The Hartford Courant. November 12, 1916. p. Z3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Battered Yale Sweeps Tigers To Dire Defeat". The New York Times. November 19, 1916. p. VIII-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Harvard Falls Before Fierce Rush of Yale". The New York Times. November 26, 1916. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
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