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Yale Bulldogs football
AmericanFootball current event.svg 2024 Yale Bulldogs football team
Yale Bulldogs script.svg
First season 1872; 152 years ago
Athletic director Victoria Chun
Head coach Tony Reno
12th season, 74–46 (.617)
Stadium Yale Bowl
(capacity: 61,446)
Field surfaceGrass (1914-2018) Field Turf (2019-present)
Location New Haven, Connecticut
Conference Ivy League
All-time record94439355 (.698)
Claimed national titles27 (1872, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1927) [1]
Conference titles18 (1956, 1960, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1999, 2006, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023)
Rivalries Harvard (rivalry)
Princeton (rivalry)
Heisman winners Larry Kelley – 1936
Clint Frank – 1937
Consensus All-Americans100
Current uniform
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ColorsYale blue and white [2]
   
Fight song"Down the Field"
Mascot Handsome Dan
Website yalebulldogs.com

The Yale Bulldogs football program represents Yale University in college football in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). Yale's football program, founded in 1872, is one of the oldest in the world. Since their founding, the Bulldogs have won 27 national championships, two of the first three Heisman Trophy winners (Larry Kelley in 1936 and Clint Frank in 1937), 100 consensus All-Americans, 28 College Football Hall of Fame inductees, including the "Father of American Football" Walter Camp, the first professional football player Pudge Heffelfinger, and coaching giants Amos Alonzo Stagg, Howard Jones, Tad Jones and Carmen Cozza. With over 900 wins, Yale ranks in the top ten for most wins in college football history.

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History

Early history

Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", as Yale's captain in 1878 Walter Camp - Project Gutenberg eText 18048.jpg
Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", as Yale's captain in 1878

The Bulldogs were the dominant team in the early days of intercollegiate football, winning 27 college football national championships, including 26 in 38 years between 1872 and 1909. [3] Walter Camp, known as the "Father of Football," graduated from Hopkins Grammar School in 1876, and played college football at Yale College from 1876 to 1882. He later served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892. [4] It was Camp who pioneered the fundamental transition of American football from rugby when in 1880, he succeeded in convincing the Intercollegiate Football Association to discontinue the rugby "scrum," and instead have players line up along a "line of scrimmage" for individual plays, which begin with the snap of the ball and conclude with the tackling of the ballcarrier. [5] In 1916, against the advisement of coach Tad Jones, Yale quarterback Chester J. LaRoche (1918s) helped lead the Yale team in a win against Princeton by turning the momentum of the game with a fourth-down call in the huddle to go for first down rather than punt. The team made the down and went on to win the game in one of Yale's greatest victories in its history. LaRoche went on to spearhead the creation of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. [6]

By the 1940s, however, Yale's success in football had waned at the national level. The famed sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote that Yale, along with Harvard and Princeton, was one of the top teams in the late 19th and early 20th century. However, "It was has been a different story in the later years when the far west, the midwest, the southwest, and the south have taken charge as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton fell behind." [7]

Formation of the Ivy League

When the Ivy League athletic conference was formed in 1955, conference rules prohibited post-season play in football. While Yale had always abstained from post-season play, other member schools had participated in bowls before, and the new policy further insulated Yale and the Ivy League from the national spotlight.

NCAA Division I subdivision split

The NCAA decided to split Division I into two subdivisions in 1978, then called I-A for larger schools, and I-AA for the smaller ones. The NCAA had devised the split, in part, with the Ivy League in mind, but the conference did not move down for four seasons despite the fact that there were many indications that the ancient eight were on the wrong side of an increasing disparity between the big and small schools. In 1982, the NCAA created a rule that stated a program's average attendance must be at least 15,000 to qualify for I-A membership. This forced the conference's hand, as only some of the member schools met the attendance qualification. Choosing to stay together rather than stand their ground separately in the increasingly competitive I-A subdivision, the Ivy League moved down into I-AA starting with the 1982 season. [8]

Conference affiliations

Yale has been both an independent and affiliated with the Ivy League. [9]

Championships

National championships

Yale has won 27 national championships from NCAA-designated major selectors. [10] [11] :110–112 Yale claims each of these championships. [12]

Yale champions
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1876
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1879
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1881
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1882
SeasonCoachSelectorsRecord
1872 No coach Parke Davis 1–0
1874 No coach National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis3–0
1876 No coach Billingsley, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis3–0
1877 No coachBillingsley, [13] National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis3–0–1
1879 No coachParke Davis3–0–2
1880 No coachBillingsley, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis4–0–1
1881 No coachNational Championship Foundation, Parke Davis5–0–1
1882 No coachBillingsley, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis8–0
1883 No coachBillingsley, Helms, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis9–0
1884 No coachBillingsley, [13] Helms, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis8–0–1
1886 No coachBillingsley, [13] Helms, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis9–0–1
1887 No coachBillingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis9–0
1888 Walter Camp Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis13–0
1891 Walter CampBillingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis13–0
1892 Walter CampBillingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis13–0
1893 William Rhodes Parke Davis10–1
1894 William RhodesBillingsley, Helms, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis16–0
1895 John A. Hartwell Parke Davis13–0–2
1897 Frank Butterworth Parke Davis9–0–2
1900 Malcolm McBride Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis12–0
1901 George S. Stillman n/a [a] [b] 11–1–1
1902 Joseph R. Swan Parke Davis11–0–1
1905 Jack Owsley Parke Davis, Whitney 10–0
1906 Foster Rockwell Billingsley, Parke Davis, Whitney9–0–1
1907 William F. Knox Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis, Whitney9–0–1
1909 Howard Jones Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis10–0
1927 Mal Stevens Football Research 7–1
  1. Parke Davis' selection for 1901, as published in Spalding's Foot Ball Guide (to which he was a contributor until his death) for 1934 and 1935, was Harvard. [14] [15]
  2. The NCAA Record Book states "Yale" for 1901, which is an error that has been perpetuated since the first appearance of Parke Davis' selections in the NCAA book about 1995. [14] [15]

Conference championships

Yale has won 18 conference championships, all in the Ivy League, as of 2023 with nine outright and nine shared. [16]

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2019 Yale Bulldogs
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Yale cheerleaders at the Yale/Cornell Football game at Yale Bowl, September 28, 2019.
YearConferenceCoachOverall recordConference record
1956 Ivy League Jordan Olivar 8–17–0
19609–07–0
1967 Carmen Cozza 8–17–0
19688–0–16–0–1
1969†7–26–1
1974†8–16–1
1976†8–16–1
19777–26–1
19798–16–1
19808–26–1
1981†9–16–1
1989†8–26–1
1999† Jack Siedlecki 9–16–1
2006†8–26–1
2017 Tony Reno 9–16–1
2019†9–16–1
20228–26–1
2023†7–35–2

† Co-championship

Head coaches

Career records of Yale head coaches. [17]

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Coach Tony Reno confers with players in November 2021
CoachYearsRecordPct.
No coach1872–188779–5–8.902
Walter Camp 1888–189267–2–0.971
William Rhodes 1893–189426–1–0.963
John A. Hartwell 189513–0–2.933
Sam Thorne 189613–1–0.929
Frank Butterworth 1897–189818–2–2.864
James O. Rodgers 18997–2–1.750
Malcolm McBride 190012–0–01.000
George S. Stillman 190111–1–1.885
Joseph R. Swan 190211–0–1.958
George B. Chadwick 190311–1–0.917
Charles D. Rafferty 190410–1–0.909
Jack Owsley 190510–0–01.000
Foster Rockwell 19069–0–1.950
William F. Knox 19079–0–1.950
Lucius Horatio Biglow 19087–1–1.833
Howard Jones 1909, 191315–2–3.825
Ted Coy 19106–2–2.700
John Field 19117–2–1.750
Art Howe 19127–1–1.833
Frank Hinkey 1914–191511–7–0.611
Tad Jones 1916–1917, 1920–192760–15–4.785
Albert Sharpe 19195–3–0.625
Mal Stevens 1928–193221–11–8.625
Reginald D. Root 19334–4–0.500
Ducky Pond 1934–194030–25–2.544
Spike Nelson 19411–7–0.125
Howard Odell 1942–194735–15–2.692
Herman Hickman 1948–195116–17–2.486
Jordan Olivar 1952–196261–32–6.646
John Pont 1963–196412–5–1.694
Carmen Cozza 1965–1996179–119–5.599
Jack Siedlecki 1997–200871–48.597
Tom Williams 2009–201116–14.533
Anthony Reno 2012–present74-46.617

Rivalries

Harvard

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Harvard-Yale football game, 1905

Harvard and Yale have been competing against each other in football since 1875. The annual rivalry game between the two schools, known as "The Game", is played in November at the end of the football season. As of 2023, Yale leads the series 70-61-8. [18]

The Game is the second oldest continuing rivalry and also the third most-played rivalry game in college football history, after the Lehigh–Lafayette Rivalry (1884) and the Princeton–Yale game (1873). Sports Illustrated On Campus rated the Harvard–Yale rivalry the sixth-best in college athletics in 2003.

Harvard had been unbeaten versus Yale from 2007 to 2015. The nine game winning streak was the longest during the rivalry. Yale's 21–14 victory over Harvard in Cambridge in 2016 ended the streak.

The Game is significant for historical reasons as the rules of The Game soon were adopted by other schools. Football's rules, conventions, and equipment, as well as elements of "atmosphere" such as the mascot and fight song, include many elements pioneered or nurtured at Harvard and Yale. [19] [20]

Princeton

The series with Princeton dates to 1873.

Yale Bowl

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The Yale Bowl is Yale's football stadium in New Haven, Connecticut about 1-1/2 miles west of Yale's main campus. Completed in 1914, the stadium seats 61,446, reduced by renovations from the original capacity of 70,869. [21]

Ground was broken on the stadium in August 1913. It was the first bowl-shaped stadium in the country, and provided inspiration for the design of such stadiums as the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, and Michigan Stadium. Through its inspiration of the Rose Bowl stadium, its name is also the origin of college football's bowl games. It was the perfect setting for New Haven native Albie Booth, also known as "Little Boy Blue" to perform his heroics vs. Army in November 1929 and for the 47-yard "kick that made history" by Randall "Randy" C. Carter, '77, snapped by the stalwart center from Illinois, Ralph Bosch, '77 and surely placed by John "Nubes" Nubani, '78, in the last seconds of the 1975 Yale-Dartmouth game to win the game for Yale, 16–14. The victory lifted head coach Carm Cozza into a tie with the legendary Walter Camp for most victories by a Bulldog mentor. [22] The current scoreboard (notable for the time clock being arranged vertically instead of horizontally) was added in 1958, and in 1986 the current press box was added. Yale hosted Penn in the first night football game at the Bowl on October 21, 2016. Penn defeated Yale in the game, 42–7. The Bowl was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987. [21] [23]

College Football Hall of Fame inductees

As of 2017, 29 Yale Bulldogs players and coaches have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. [24]

End Tom Shevlin was a four-time All-American from 1902 to 1905 Tom Shevlin.jpg
End Tom Shevlin was a four-time All-American from 1902 to 1905
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Lee "Bum" McClung later served as Treasurer of the United States
NamePositionYearsInducted
Mal Aldrich HB 1919–19211972
Doug Bomeisler End1910–19121972
Albie Booth HB 1929–19311966
Gordon Brown G 1897–19001954
Walter Camp Coach1888–18951951
Pa Corbin C 1886–18881969
Ted Coy FB 1907–19091951
Carmen Cozza Coach1965–19962002
Clint Frank HB 1935–19371955
Pudge Heffelfinger G 1888–18911951
Bill Hickock G 1892–18941971
Frank Hinkey End1891–18941951
James Hogan T 1901–19041954
Art Howe QB 1909–19111973
Dick Jauron RB 1970–19722015
Howard Jones Coach1908–19401951
Tad Jones Coach1909–19271958
Larry Kelley End1934–19361969
Hank Ketcham C, G 1911–19131968
John Kilpatrick End1908–19101955
Alex Kroll C 1956, 1960–19611997
Bill Mallory FB 1921–19231964
Lee McClung HB 1888–18911963
Century Milstead T 1920–1921, 19231977
Tom Shevlin End1902–19051954
Amos Alonzo Stagg End1885–18891951
Mal Stevens QB, HB 1919–1921, 19231974
Herbert Sturhahn G 1924–19261981
Sam Thorne HB 1893–18951970

Yale players in the NFL

More than 30 players from Yale have gone on to play in the National Football League, including running backs Calvin Hill, Chuck Mercein and Chris Hetherington, defensive backs Dick Jauron, Gary Fencik and Kenny Hill, tight ends Eric Johnson and John Spagnola, quarterback Brian Dowling, and linemen Fritz Barzilauskas, Century Milstead and Mike Pyle.

NamePositionYearsTeams
Kiran Amegadjie T 2024– Chicago Bears [25]
Shane Bannon FB 2011–2011 Kansas City Chiefs
Fritz Barzilauskas G 1947–1951 Boston Yanks, New York Bulldogs, New York Giants
Art Brama T 1922–1923 Racine Legion
Bruce Caldwell FB 1928New York Giants
Rich Diana RB 1982 Miami Dolphins
Brian Dowling QB 1972–1977 New England Patriots, Charlotte Hornets (WFL), Green Bay Packers
Greg Dubinetz G 1979 Washington Redskins
Joe Dufek QB 1983–1985 Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers
Dieter Eiselen Center 2020– Chicago Bears, Houston Texans
Gary Fencik DB 1976–1987Chicago Bears
Nick Gargiulo Center 2024– Denver Broncos
Jaeden Graham TE 2018-Atlanta Falcons
Chris Hetherington FB 1996–2006 Indianapolis Colts, Carolina Panthers, St. Louis Rams, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers
Calvin Hill RB 1969–1981 Dallas Cowboys, The Hawaiians (WFL), Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns
Kenny Hill DB 1981–1989Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Raiders, New York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs
Dick Jauron DB 1973–1980 Detroit Lions, Cincinnati Bengals
Eric Johnson TE 2001–2007San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints
Herb Kempton QB 1921 Canton Bulldogs
Alex Kroll T, C 1962–1962 New York Titans
Nate Lawrie TE 2004–2008Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New Orleans Saints, Cincinnati Bengals
Don Martin DB 1973–1976New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Chuck Mercein RB 1965–1970New York Giants, Green Bay Packers, Washington Redskins, New York Jets
Than Merrill DB 2001Chicago Bears
Century Milstead T 1925–1928New York Giants, Philadelphia Quakers (AFL), New York Giants
Foyesade Oluokun LB 2018– Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars
John Prchlik T 1949–1953Detroit Lions
Gene Profit DB 1986–1988New England Patriots
Mike Pyle C 1961–1969Chicago Bears
Jeff Rohrer LB 1982–1987Dallas Cowboys
Bill Schuler T 1947–1948New York Giants
John Spagnola TE 1979–1989 Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers
Rodney Thomas II DB 2022– Indianapolis Colts
Mason Tipton WR 2024– New Orleans Saints
Tyler Varga FB 2015–2016 [26] Indianapolis Colts
Paul Walker End, DB 1948New York Giants

All-Americans

Yale guard Pudge Heffelfinger became the first professional football player in 1892. Pudge heffelfinger.jpg
Yale guard Pudge Heffelfinger became the first professional football player in 1892.
Frank Hinkey was a four-time All-American (1891-1894). Frank Hinkey.jpg
Frank Hinkey was a four-time All-American (1891–1894).
Fullback Ted Coy was a three-time All-American (1907-1909). Ted Coy.jpg
Fullback Ted Coy was a three-time All-American (1907–1909).

Since the first All-American team was selected by Caspar Whitney in 1889, more than 100 Yale football players have been selected as first-team All-Americans. Consensus All-Americans are noted below with bold typeface.

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