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[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4BrownW 18–0[3]
October 7at Crescent Athletic ClubW 16–02,000[4]
October 14Dartmouth
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–0800–1,200[5][6]
October 18Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0
October 21at Orange Athletic ClubW 50–02,000[7]
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

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References[edit]

  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. ^ "Opened The Football Season Today". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 5, 1893. p. 2. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Crescents' Good Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 8, 1893. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Mass Plays On The Tackles". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 15, 1893. p. 4. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Battered At Yale's Centre". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 15, 1893. p. 3. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Yale Shows Up Strong: Orange Athletic Club Badly Beaten -- Score, 50 to 0". Boston Sunday Post. October 22, 1893. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.