1885 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1885 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1884
1886 →
1885 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     9 0 0
Michigan     3 0 0
Colorado College
    1 0 0
Yale     7 1 0
Cincinnati     1 0 1
Penn     8 5 0
Lafayette     3 2 1
Massachusetts     3 2 1
Johns Hopkins     2 2 0
Richmond     1 1 0
Wesleyan
    3 4 0
Navy     1 2 0
Lehigh     1 5 1
Rutgers     0 1 0
Fordham
    0 3 0

The 1885 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1885 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 7–1 record. The team recorded six shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 366 to 11. Its only loss was against rival Princeton by a 6–5 score.[1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 10at Stevens
W 55–0[2]
October 14vs.
Wesleyan
W 18–0200[3]
October 283:00 p.m.WesleyanW 68–0[4]
October 31at MIT
W 51–0900[5]
November 3Crescent Athletic Club
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 52–0[6]
November 142:00 p.m.at Penn
W 53–5[7][8]
November 212:30 p.m.Princeton
L 5–65,000[9][10]
November 26vs. WesleyanW 61–05,000[11][12]

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References

  1. ^ a b "1885 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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