1889 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1889 college football season. In their second season under head coach Walter Camp, Yale compiled a 15–1 record, held opponents scoreless in 12 games, and outscored all opponents by a total of 664 to 31. Its only loss was in the final game of the season against rival Princeton by a 10–0 score.[1]

1889 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1889 record15–1
Head coach
CaptainCharles O. Gill
Home stadiumYale Field
1889 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton   –    10 –0 –0
Yale   –    15 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –    7 –1 –0
Harvard   –    9 –2 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    5 –1 –1
Navy   –    4 –1 –1
Tufts   –    3 –1 –0
Lehigh   –    8 –3 –2
Cornell   –    8 –4 –0
Penn   –    7 –6 –0
Brown   –    2 –2 –0
Penn State   –    2 –2 –0
Delaware   –    1 –1 –1
Wesleyan   –    5 –7 –1
Bucknell   –    2 –3 –1
Amherst   –    3 –5 –2
Lafayette   –    3 –4 –2
Columbia   –    2 –7 –2
Fordham   –    1 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    1 –4 –0

Three Yale players (end Amos Alonzo Stagg, guard Pudge Heffelfinger and tackle Charles O. Gill) were named to the 1889 College Football All-America Team, the first college football All-America team as selected by Caspar Whitney.[2] Stagg and Heffelfinger have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 Wesleyan
W 38–0
October 9at Wesleyan Middletown, CTW 63–5
October 12 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–0 [3]
October 16 Cornell
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 56–6 [4]
October 19 Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 42–0 [5]
October 24at Trinity (CT) Hartford, CTW 64–0 [6]
October 26at Columbia
W 62–0 [7]
October 30at Penn Philadelphia, PAW 22–10 [8]
October 31vs. Stevens
  • Berkeley Oval
  • New York, NY
W 30–0 [9]
November 5at Crescent Athletic Club
W 18–04,000[10]
November 9at Cornell Ithaca, NYW 70–02,000[11]
November 12at Amherst Amherst, MAW 32–0 [12]
November 13at Williams W 70–0
November 16vs. Wesleyan Springfield, MAW 52–0 [13]
November 23vs. Harvard
W 6–015,000[14]
November 28vs. Princeton
L 0–10>25,000[15]

References
  1. "1889 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  2. The All-America Team for 1889 selected by Casper Whitney is identified in the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived 2009-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "No Science In The Play: Yale Defeats Williams in a Very Rough Game of Football". The New York Times. October 13, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Yale Wins at Football: Cornell Defeated by a Score of 56 to 6". The New York Times. October 17, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Yale Defeats Amherst". The New York Times. October 28, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Yale 64, Trinity 0: The Blues Easily Win at Hartford -- Casualties and Score". Burlington Daily Free Press. October 25, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Yale Beats Columbia, and Princeton Wins, Too". The New York Times. October 27, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Yale Takes The Game". The Times (Philadelphia). October 31, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Yale's New Football Men: Corbin, Terry and Beecher Play Against Stevens". The New York Times. November 1, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Yale Muscle Wins Again". The Sun (New York). November 6, 1889. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Cornell Defeated By Yale". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. November 10, 1889. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Yale Plays The Return Game With Amherst And Wins". The New York Times. November 13, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Yale, 52; Wesleyan, 0". The New York Times. November 17, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Yale Wins From Harvard". The New York Times. November 24, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Princeton Wins Gloriously". The Sun (New York). November 29, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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