1916 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1916 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainClinton Black
Home stadiumYale Bowl, Yale Field
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple     3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall     1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

The 1916 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1916 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Tad Jones. The team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 182 to 44 and suffered its only loss to Brown.[1] Yale guard Clinton Black was a consensus pick for the 1916 College Football All-America Team, and four other Yale players (ends Charles Comerford and George Moseley, halfback Harry LeGore, and a guard with the surname Fox) also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector in 1916. Black was the team's captain.[2]

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30 Carnegie TechW 25–0[3]
October 7 Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 61–3[4]
October 14 Lehigh
W 12–07,000[5]
October 20 VPI
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–05,000[6]
October 28 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–14[7]
November 4 Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–3[8]
November 11Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–21[9]
November 18at Princeton W 10–042,000[10]
November 25 Harvard
W 6–3[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1916 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Cupid Black Chosen Yale Football Captain for 1916". The Day (Afternoon ed.): 12. December 1, 1915.
  3. ^ "Yale Opens Season by Beating Carnegie Tech". The Hartford Courant. October 1, 1916. p. 33 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Yale Crushes Virginia Beneath 61 to 3 Defeat". The Hartford Courant. October 8, 1916. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Harry Legore's Sensational Playing Features Yale Victory Over Lehigh". The Hartford Courant. October 15, 1916. p. Z3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale Substitutes Win From Virginia, 20 to 0". The Harford Courant. October 21, 1916. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale's Rush Line Shows Much Power: Washington and Jefferson Beaten by 36 to 14". The Boston Globe. October 29, 1916. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale Defeats Colgate 7 to 3". Boston Post. November 5, 1916. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Pollard, Brown's Wonderful Halfback, Shines Brightly in Brown's Second Conquest of Bulldog". The Hartford Courant. November 12, 1916. p. Z3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Battered Yale Sweeps Tigers To Dire Defeat". The New York Times. November 19, 1916. p. VIII-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Harvard Falls Before Fierce Rush of Yale". The New York Times. November 26, 1916. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.