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1903 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1903 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–1
Head coach
CaptainCharles D. Rafferty
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1902
1904 →
1903 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     11 0 0
Yale     11 1 0
Columbia     9 1 0
Dartmouth     9 1 0
Geneva     9 1 0
Holy Cross     8 2 0
Temple     4 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Lehigh     9 2 1
Harvard     9 3 0
Penn     9 3 0
Army     6 2 1
Carlisle     6 2 1
Amherst     7 3 0
Lafayette     7 3 0
Cornell     6 3 1
Colgate     4 2 1
Penn State     5 3 0
Swarthmore     6 4 0
Brown     5 4 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Fordham     1 1 0
Frankin & Marshall     5 5 1
Buffalo     4 4 0
Rutgers     4 4 1
Delaware     4 4 0
Villanova     2 2 0
Bucknell     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Tufts     5 8 0
Wesleyan     3 6 1
Springfield Training School     1 3 1
NYU     2 5 0
New Hampshire     2 6 1
Pittsburgh College     1 5 1
Western U. Penn.     1 8 1

The 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1903 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach George B. Chadwick. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 26 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Princeton.[1]

Four Yale players (fullback Ledyard Mitchell, end Charles D. Rafferty, tackle James Hogan and guard James Bloomer) were consensus picks for the 1903 College Football All-America Team.[2] Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick,[3] and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the San Antonio Daily Light.[4]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26Trinity (CT)W 35–0
September 30Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
October 3Vermont
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0[5]
October 7Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 33–0
October 10Springfield Training School
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0[6]
October 14Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–10[7]
October 17Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–0
October 24at ArmyW 17–5
October 31at ColumbiaW 25–0[8]
November 7Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 30–0
November 14Princeton
L 6–1130,000[9][10]
November 212:00 p.m.at HarvardW 16–037,000[11][12][13][14][15][16]

References

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  1. ^ "1903 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. ^ "Crack Football Eleven". Los Angeles Times. November 30, 1903.
  4. ^ "The Ideal All-American Team". San Antonio Daily Light. December 14, 1903.
  5. ^ "Yale 46, Vermont 0". The New York Times. October 4, 1903. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Gave Yale A Battle". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 1903. p. 10. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Holy Cross surprises Yale". Journal and Courier. October 15, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale's football victory". The New York Times. November 1, 1903. p. 13. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Princeton Wins Big Football Game: Yale Beaten at New Haven in Grand Contest by 11 to 6". The New York Times. November 15, 1903. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Princeton, Rah! Yale Swallows An 11-6 Defeat On Home Ground Before Ancient Rival". The Sun. New York, N.Y. November 15, 1903. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ^ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 7. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ^ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 8. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. ^ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard Fight Hard But Yale Wins 16-0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ^ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Yale Wins 16-0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  16. ^ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Yale Wins 16-0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 9. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.