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1879 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1879 Yale Bulldogs football
Yale Bulldogs, co-national champions
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–0–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainWalter Camp
Home stadiumHamilton Park
Seasons
← 1878
1880 →
1879 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     4 0 1
Yale     3 0 2
Massachusetts     1 0 0
Michigan     1 0 1
Haverford     1 0 1
Harvard     2 1 2
Penn     2 2 0
Amherst     1 1 0
Navy     0 0 1
McGill     0 0 1
Toronto     0 0 1
Stevens     1 2 5
Rutgers     1 2 3
Pennsylvania Military     0 1 1
NYU     0 2 1
Racine     0 1 0
Swarthmore     0 1 0
Columbia     0 3 2

The 1879 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1879 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0–2 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule[edit]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 1vs. Penn
W 3–0[3]
November 8HarvardT 0–01,500–2,000[4]
November 15Rutgers
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 5–0300[5]
November 223:00 p.m.vs. Columbia
  • St. George's Cricket Club grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
W 2–0[6]
November 272:40 p.m.vs. Princeton
  • St. George's Cricket Club grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)
T 0–06,000–7,000[7][8]

[2]

Roster[edit]

  • Forwards: Franklin M. Eaton, John S. Harding, Louis K. Hull, Benjamin B. Lamb, Howard H. Knapp, John Moorhead Jr., Frederic Remington, Charles S. Beck
  • Halfbacks: Walter Irving Badger, Walter Camp, George H. Clark, William A. Peters, Robert W. Watson
  • Backs: William K. Nixon, Chester W. Lyman
  • Others: Benjamin Wisner Bacon, John S. Durand, John F. Merrill, Charles B. Storrs, Frederick R. Vernon
  • Manager: Eugene W. Walker

[9][10][11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "1879 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ .
  4. ^ "Football: Annual Match Between the Teams of Yale and Harvard". New York Daily Herald. November 9, 1879. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
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  9. ^ Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 81.
  10. ^ Tim Cohane (1951). The Yale Football Story. Putnam. p. 343.
  11. ^ "Yale Football 2009 Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. pp. 113–125.