1898 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1898 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
CaptainBurr Chamberlain
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   11 – 0 – 0
Drexel   –   7 – 0 – 0
Princeton   –   11 – 0 – 1
Penn   –   12 – 1 – 0
Buffalo   –   8 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   10 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   9 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 0
Yale   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dickinson   –   8 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan
   –   7 – 3 – 0
Western Penn.
   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Carlisle   –   6 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   6 – 4 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 2 – 1
Holy Cross   –   5 – 4 – 1
Bucknell
   –   4 – 4 – 3
Fordham
   –   1 – 1 – 2
Frankin & Marshall
   –   4 – 4 – 2
New Hampshire   –   4 – 4 – 0
Amherst
   –   4 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   2 – 4 – 1
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   2 – 5 – 1
Temple
   –   2 – 5 – 0
Lafayette   –   3 – 8 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 1
Tufts   –   1 – 9 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 6 – 1

The 1898 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1898 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 9–2 record, under second-year head coach Frank Butterworth. The team recorded seven shutouts and won its first nine games by a combined 146 to 11 score. It then lost its final two games against rivals Princeton (6–0) and Harvard (17–0).[1]

Three Yale players, halfback Malcolm McBride and guards Burr Chamberlain and Gordon Brown, were consensus picks for the 1898 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 243:30 p.m.at Trinity (CT)
W 18–0 [3][4]
October 1
Wesleyan
W 5–0 [5]
October 5
Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–0 [6]
October 8 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0 [7]
October 15at Newton Athletic Association Newton, MAW 6–0 [8]
October 19 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–6 [9]
October 22 Carlisle
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–52,500[10][11]
October 29at Army
W 10–05,000[12]
November 5 Chicago Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 10–0 [13]
November 12at Princeton
L 0–616,500[14]
November 19 Harvard
L 0–1717,500[15][16]

References

  1. ^ "1898 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
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