1893 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1893 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1
Head coach
CaptainFrank Hinkey
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1892
1894 →
1893 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     11 0 0
Fordham     4 0 0
Harvard     12 1 0
Yale     10 1 0
Colgate     3 0 2
Penn     12 3 0
Penn State     4 1 0
Wesleyan     4 1 0
Holy Ghost     6 2 0
Swarthmore     6 2 1
Lehigh     7 3 0
Brown     6 3 0
Carlisle     2 1 0
Delaware     2 1 0
Frankin & Marshall     4 2 1
Navy     5 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     5 3 0
Drexel     3 2 0
Bucknell     4 3 0
Amherst     7 6 1
Boston College     3 3 0
Geneva     2 2 1
Army     4 5 0
Williams     2 3 1
Tufts     4 7 0
Cornell     3 6 1
Worcester Tech     2 4 1
Boston University     1 2 0
Lafayette     3 6 0
Syracuse     4 9 1
Western Penn     1 4 0
MIT     1 5 0
Massachusetts     1 9 0
New Hampshire     0 1 0
Rutgers     0 4 0
Maine     0 5 0

The 1893 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1893 college football season. The team finished with a 10–1 record and, despite losing to Princeton, was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.[1][2] Yale's 1893 season was part of a 37-game winning streak that began with the final game of the 1890 season and stopped at the end of the 1893 season.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4BrownW 18–0
October 7at Crescent Athletic ClubW 16–02,000[3]
October 14Dartmouth
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–0
October 18Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0
October 21at Orange Athletic ClubW 50–02,000[4]
October 25Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 82–0
October 28at ArmyW 28–0
November 7at New York Athletic ClubW 42–0
November 11vs. Penn
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 14–6
November 25vs. HarvardW 6–0
November 30vs. Princeton
L 0–6

[2]

References

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "1893 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Crescents' Good Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 8, 1893. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Yale Shows Up Strong: Orange Athletic Club Badly Beaten -- Score, 50 to 0". Boston Sunday Post. October 22, 1893. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.