1883 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1883 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1883 college football season. The team compiled a 9–0 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 540 to 2.[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[2]

1883 Yale Bulldogs football
Consensus national champion
ConferenceIndependent
1883 record9–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainRay Tompkins
Home stadiumHamilton Park
1883 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale      9 0 0
Gallaudet      2 0 0
Carleton      1 0 0
Johns Hopkins      1 0 0
Harvard      8 2 0
Princeton      7 1 0
Penn      6 2 1
Stevens      6 4 1
Massachusetts      1 1 0
Minnesota      1 1 0
Wesleyan      3 3 0
Williams      1 1 0
Fordham      4 5 0
Michigan      2 3 0
Lafayette      2 4 0
Johns Hopkins      1 2 0
Columbia      1 3 0
Rutgers      1 6 0
Amherst      0 1 0
Dartmouth      0 1 0
Hamline      0 1 0
Lewisburg      0 1 0
Navy      0 1 0
CCNY      0 2 0
Georgetown      0 2 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26WesleyanW 58–0
September 29at WesleyanMiddletown, CTW 90–0
October 6Stevens
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 59–0[3]
November 6vs. RutgersW 92–0nearly 1,000[4]
November 14Brooklyn Polytechnic InstituteBrooklyn, NYW 49–0
November 17vs. ColumbiaW 93–0400–500[5]
November 21Michigan
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 64–0400
November 24vs. Princeton
W 6–05,000–6,000[6]
November 29vs. Harvard
W 23–2nearly 10,000[7]

[1]

Roster

References

  1. "1883 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. "Yale vs. Stevens Institute". The Harvard Crimson. October 12, 1883.
  4. "Yale Easily Defeats Rutgers". New York Tribune. November 7, 1883. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Two Games of Football". The Sun. November 18, 1883. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Yale Beats Princeton". The Sun. November 25, 1883. p. 7 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Yale Again Victorious". New York Tribune. November 30, 1883. p. 8 via Newspapers.com.
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