1920 Yale Bulldogs football team

1920 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3
Head coach	Tad Jones (3rd season)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Captain	Tim Callahan [1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ←  1919 1921  →

1920 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Boston College			–					8	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					8	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					6	–	0	–	1
Penn State			–					7	–	0	–	2
Pittsburgh			–					6	–	0	–	2
Army			–					7	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	2	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	2	–	1
Geneva			–					5	–	2	–	1
New Hampshire			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					6	–	4	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					5	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					5	–	3	–	0
Holy Cross			–					5	–	3	–	0
Williams			–					5	–	3	–	0
Yale			–					5	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	3	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					3	–	2	–	2
Boston University			–					4	–	3	–	1
Columbia			–					4	–	4	–	0
Duquesne			–					3	–	3	–	1
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	5	–	1
Rhode Island State			–					0	–	4	–	4
Tufts			–					2	–	6	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	7	–	0
Buffalo			–					1	–	4	–	0
Colgate			–					1	–	5	–	2
Villanova			–					1	–	5	–	1
Drexel			–					0	–	6	–	0

The 1920 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1920 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 5–3 record under third-year head coach Tad Jones. ^[2] Yale guard Tim Callahan was a consensus selection for the 1920 College Football All-America Team, ^[3] receiving first team honors from Walter Camp, ^[4] the United Press, ^[5] and the International News Service. ^[6] Yale's other guard, John Acosta, also received first-team All-America honors from Walter Eckersall. ^[7]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	Carnegie Tech	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 44–0
October 9	North Carolina	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 21–0
October 16	Boston College	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 13–21	30,000
October 23	West Virginia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 24–0		[8]
October 30	Colgate	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 21–7
November 6	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–10	40,000	[9]
November 13	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–20	50,000	[10]
November 20	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–9	close to 80,000	[11]

References

1. "Year By Year Scores: 1920". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 63. Retrieved November 26, 2024– via Internet Archive.
2. "1920 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived July 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
4. "Camp Names Gridiron Stars". Post-Standard. Syracuse, NY. December 15, 1920.
5. Henry L. Farrell (December 10, 1920). "Brilliant Backs Are Features of 1920 Eleven: United Press Scribe Picks An All-American Eleven Himself". Middletown Daily Herald.
6. Jacob Velock (December 7, 1920). "Hard Task To Pick All-American Team From This Season's Galaxy of Stars". Trenton Evening Times.
7. "Weston on Second All-American Team". Janesville Daily Gazette. December 13, 1920.
8. "Mountaineers Beaten By Yale By Surprisingly Large Margin". The Pittsburg Press. October 24, 1920. p. Sporting 3 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Husky Brown Team Make Yale Stage Thrilling Rally". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York. November 7, 1920. p. 60. Retrieved March 18, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
10. Grantland Rice (November 14, 1920). "Princeton Blanks Yale 20 to 0; Worst Beating Ever Inflicted on Bulldog by Tiger". New York Tribune. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Crimson Defeats Yale By Score of 9-0: Crimson Machine Held By Savage Defense of Yale". The Hartford Courant. November 21, 1920. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.