1898 Yale Bulldogs football team

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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).[1]

Three Yale players, halfback Malcolm McBride and guards Burr Chamberlain and Gordon Brown, were consensus picks for the 1898 College Football All-America Team.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Yale Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  2. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.