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1908 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1908 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
CaptainRobert Burch
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1907
1909 →
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     11 0 1
Harvard     9 0 1
Cornell     7 1 1
Fordham     5 1 0
Yale     7 1 1
Dartmouth     6 1 1
Carlisle     10 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     10 2 1
Army     6 1 2
Pittsburgh     8 3 0
Lafayette     6 2 2
Princeton     5 2 3
Syracuse     6 3 1
Brown     5 3 1
Temple     3 2 1
Colgate     4 3 0
Lehigh     4 3 0
Dickinson     5 4 0
Amherst     3 3 2
Holy Cross     4 4 0
Penn State     5 5 0
Vermont     3 3 3
Wesleyan     3 4 2
Springfield Training School     3 4 1
NYU     2 3 2
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 1
Bucknell     3 5 2
Rutgers     3 5 1
Boston College     2 4 2
Carnegie Tech     3 7 0
Geneva     1 6 2
Tufts     1 6 1
Villanova     1 6 0
Drexel     0 7 0

The 1908 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1908 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 7–1–1 record under first-year head coach Lucius Horatio Biglow.[1]

Three Yale players, fullback Ted Coy and guards Hamlin Andrus and William Goebel, were consensus picks for the 1908 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30 WesleyanW 16–0
October 3 Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 5–0
October 10 Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0
October 17at ArmyW 6–0
October 24 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 38–0
October 31 Massachusetts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 49–0
November 7 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
T 10–10
November 14at Princeton W 11–6
November 21 Harvard
L 0–4[2]

References

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  1. ^ "1908 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 22, 1908). "Crimson Triumphs: Yale Outplayed and Beaten, 4 to 0; Kennard Gets Field Goal Late in First Half". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.