1898 Yale Bulldogs football team

1898 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	9–2
Head coach	Frank Butterworth (2nd season)
Captain	Burr Chamberlain
Home stadium	Yale Field

1898 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					11	–	0	–	0
Drexel			–					7	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo			–					8	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					9	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					9	–	2	–	0
Dickinson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan			–					7	–	3	–	0
Western Penn.			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					6	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Vermont			–					3	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross			–					5	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	3
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	4	–	2
New Hampshire			–					4	–	4	–	0
Amherst			–					4	–	5	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	5	–	0
Lafayette			–					3	–	8	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					1	–	9	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	6	–	1

The 1898 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1898 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 9–2 record, under second-year head coach Frank Butterworth. The team recorded seven shutouts and won its first nine games by a combined 146 to 11 score. It then lost its final two games against rivals Princeton (6–0) and Harvard (17–0).

Three Yale players, halfback Malcolm McBride and guards Burr Chamberlain and Gordon Brown, were consensus picks for the 1898 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	3:30 p.m.	at Trinity (CT)	Trinity grounds Hartford, CT	W 18–0
October 1		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 5–0
October 5		Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 34–0
October 8		Williams	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 23–0
October 15		at Newton Athletic Association	Newton, MA	W 6–0
October 19		Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–6
October 22		Carlisle	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 18–5	2,500
October 29		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 10–0	5,000
November 5		Chicago Athletic Association	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 10–0
November 12		at Princeton	Brokaw Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–6	16,500
November 19		Harvard	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–17	17,500
All times are in Eastern time