1889 Yale Bulldogs football team

1889 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference Independent
1889 record 15–1
Head coach Walter Camp (2nd year)
Captain Charles O. Gill
1889 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale         15 1 0
Harvard         9 2 0
USC         2 0 0
Notre Dame         1 0 0
Washington         0 1 0
Columbia         2 7 2

The 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1889 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 15–1 record under second-year head coach Walter Camp. Camp became known as the "Father of American Football". The 1890 Yale team recorded 12 shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 661 to 31. Its only loss was in the final game of the season against rival Princeton by a 10–0 score.[1][2]

Three Yale players (end Amos Alonzo Stagg, guard Pudge Heffelfinger and tackle Charles O. Gill) were named to the 1889 College Football All-America Team, the first college football All-America team as selected by Caspar Whitney.[3] Stagg and Heffelfinger have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schedule

References

  1. "Yale Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  2. "2015 Yale Football" (PDF). yalebulldogs.com. Yale Athletics. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  3. The All-America Team for 1889 selected by Casper Whitney is identified in the NCAA guide to football award winners
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