1916 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1916 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1916 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Tad Jones. The team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 182 to 44 and suffered its only loss to Brown.[1] Yale guard Clinton Black was a consensus pick for the 1916 College Football All-America Team, and four other Yale players (ends Charles Comerford and George Moseley, halfback Harry LeGore, and a guard with the surname Fox) also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector in 1916.

1916 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1916 record8–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Army      9 0 0
Pittsburgh      8 0 0
Brown      8 1 0
Colgate      8 1 0
Yale      8 1 0
Fordham      6 1 1
Penn State      8 2 0
Wash. & Jeff.      8 2 0
Boston College      6 2 0
Cornell      6 2 0
Princeton      6 2 0
Lehigh      6 2 1
Dartmouth      5 2 2
Harvard      7 3 0
Penn      7 3 1
Temple      3 1 2
Tufts      5 3 0
Carnegie Tech      4 3 0
Rutgers      3 2 2
NYU      4 3 1
Syracuse      5 4 0
Rhode Island State      3 4 1
Geneva      2 5 2
Carlisle      1 3 1
Lafayette      2 6 1
Bucknell      3 9 0
Columbia      1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall      1 7 0
Villanova      1 8 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30 Carnegie TechW 25–0
October 7 Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 61–3
October 14 Lehigh
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–0
October 20 VPI
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
October 28 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–14
November 4 Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–3
November 11 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–21
November 18at Princeton W 10–0
November 25 Harvard
W 6–3

References

  1. "1916 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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