1896 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1896 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1896 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 13–1 record under first-year head coach Sam Thorne. The team recorded nine shutouts and won its first 13 games by a combined 212 to 29 score. It then lost its final game against rival Princeton by a 24–6 score.[1]

1896 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1896 record13–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Field
1896 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Fordham   –    1 –0 –0
Lafayette   –    11 –0 –1
Princeton   –    10 –0 –1
Penn   –    14 –1 –0
Yale   –    13 –1 –0
Pittsburgh College   –    11 –2 –0
Buffalo   –    8 –1 –2
Villanova   –    10 –4 –0
Bucknell   –    5 –2 –1
Harvard   –    7 –4 –0
Boston College   –    5 –3 –0
Storrs   –    5 –3 –0
Cornell   –    5 –3 –1
Syracuse   –    5 –3 –2
Temple   –    3 –2 –0
Army   –    3 –2 –1
Carlisle   –    5 –5 –0
Rutgers   –    6 –7 –0
Brown   –    4 –5 –1
Wesleyan   –    4 –5 –1
Frankin & Marshall   –    3 –4 –2
Geneva   –    3 –4 –0
Penn State   –    3 –4 –0
Colgate   –    3 –4 –1
Amherst   –    3 –6 –1
Holy Cross   –    1 –3 –2
Western Univ. Penn.   –    3 –6 –0
Lehigh   –    2 –5 –0
Tufts   –    2 –6 –1
New Hampshire   –    1 –4 –0
Massachusetts   –    0 –4 –0
Rhode Island   –    0 –4 –0

Two Yale players, quarterback Clarence Fincke and tackle Fred T. Murphy, were consensus picks for the 1896 College Football All-America Team.[2] Leslie's Weekly also picked three other Yale players (ends Lyman Bass and Louis Hinkey and center Burr Chamberlain) as 1896 first-team All-America players.[3]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26at Trinity (CT) Hartford, CTW 6–0 [4]
September 30 Amherst
W 12–0 [5]
October 7 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0 [6]
October 10vs. Orange Athletic Club
W 12–01,000[7]
October 14 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0 [8]
October 17 Dartmouth
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 42–0 [9]
October 21 Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0 [10]
October 24vs. Carlisle
W 12–65,000[11]
October 28 Elizabeth A. C.
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–6 [12]
October 31at Army
W 16–2 [13]
November 3 Boston Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 10–02,500[14]
November 7at Brown Providence, RIW 18–62,500[15]
November 14 New Jersey A.C.
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0 [16]
November 21 Princeton
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY (rivalry)
L 6–2435,000[17]

References
  1. "1896 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001.
  4. "Yale Scores But Once On Trinity's Eleven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 27, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Amherst Gives Yale a Hard Tussle". Boston Post. October 1, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Victory for the Blue". Chicago Tribune. October 8, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Yale, 12; Orange, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 11, 1896. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Yale, 22; Williams, O". Boston Post. October 15, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Yale Beats Dartmouth Easily". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 18, 1896. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Yale, 16; Wesleyan, 0". Boston Post. October 22, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Yale Had a Close Call". The New York Times. October 25, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Close Formation Plays Give Yale a Surprise: Elizabeth A. C. Scores Six Points, and the Blue Goes Them Six Points Better". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 29, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Yale, 16; West Point, 2". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 1, 1896. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Yale, 10; Boston A.A., 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 4, 1896. p. 10.
  15. "Brown University Scores Against Yale". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 8, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Yale Held Down: Scored But Sixteen Points Against the New Jersey Athletic Club". Washington Times. November 15, 1896. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. "Nassau Beats Eli: Princeton Football Players Bowled Over Yale's Warriors and Won Easily on Manhattan Field". The New York Times. November 22, 1896. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
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