1889 Yale Bulldogs football team
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Template:1889 college football records The 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1889 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 15–1 record under second-year head coach Walter Camp. Camp became known as the "Father of American Football". The 1890 Yale team recorded 12 shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 661 to 31. Its only loss was in the final game of the season against rival Princeton by a 10–0 score.[1][dead link][2]
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.[3] Stagg and Heffelfinger have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Schedule
- S28 WESLEYAN 38-0
- O09 @WESLEYAN 63-5
- O12 WILLIAMS 36-0
- O16 CORNELL 60-6
- O19 AMHERST 42-0
- O24 @TRINITY 64-0
- O26 @COLUMBIA 62-0
- O30 @PENNSYLVANIA 22-10
- O31 STEVENS INST. 30-0
- N5 @CRESCENT A.C. 18-0
- N9 @CORNELL 70-0
- N12 @AMHERST 32-0
- N13 @WILLIAMS 70-0
- N16 WESLEYAN 52-0 (Played @New York, NY)
- N23 HARVARD 6-0 (Played @Springfield, MA)
- N28 PRINCETON 0-10 (Played @New York, NY)
References
- ^ "Yale Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ "2015 Yale Football" (PDF). yalebulldogs.com. Yale Athletics. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ^ The All-America Team for 1889 selected by Casper Whitney is identified in the NCAA guide to football award winners