1903 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1903 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach George B. Chadwick. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 206 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Princeton.[1]

1903 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1903 record11–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Field
1903 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton      11 0 0
Yale      11 1 0
Columbia      9 1 0
Dartmouth      9 1 0
Geneva      9 1 0
Temple      4 1 0
Lehigh      9 2 1
Harvard      9 3 0
Penn      9 3 0
Army      6 2 1
Carlisle      6 2 1
Amherst      7 3 0
Lafayette      7 3 0
Cornell      6 3 1
Colgate      4 2 1
Penn State      5 3 0
Brown      5 4 1
Syracuse      5 4 0
Fordham      1 1 0
Frankin & Marshall      5 5 1
Rutgers      4 4 1
Villanova      2 2 0
Bucknell      4 5 0
Tufts      5 8 0
Pittsburgh College      3 5 0
Wesleyan      3 6 1
NYU      2 5 0
New Hampshire      2 6 1
Western U. Penn.      1 8 1

Four Yale players (fullback Ledyard Mitchell, end Charles D. Rafferty, tackle James Hogan and guard James Bloomer) were consensus picks for the 1903 College Football All-America Team.[2] Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick,[3] and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the San Antonio Daily Light.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 26Trinity (CT)W 35–0
September 30Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
October 3Vermont
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0
October 7Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 33–0
October 10Springfield YMCA
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0
October 14Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–10
October 17Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–0
October 24at ArmyW 17–5
October 31Columbia
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 25–0
November 7Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 30–0
November 14Princeton
L 6–11
November 21at HarvardW 16–0

References

  1. "1903 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. "Crack Football Eleven". Los Angeles Times. November 30, 1903.
  4. "The Ideal All-American Team". San Antonio Daily Light. December 14, 1903.
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