1881 Yale Bulldogs football team

1881 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
IFA champion
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1881 record 5–0–1 ( )
Head coach No coach
Home stadium Hamilton Park
1881 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale   –       5 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –       7 – 0 – 2
Richmond   –       2 – 0 – 0
Dartmouth   –       1 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –       1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –       6 – 1 – 1
Massachusetts   –       2 – 1 – 1
Kentucky U.   –       2 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –       3 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –       2 – 4 – 1
Stevens Tech   –       1 – 2 – 1
Kentucky State   –       1 – 2 – 0
CCNY   –       0 – 1 – 0
Lewisburg   –       0 – 1 – 0
MIT   –       0 – 1 – 0
Wesleyan   –       0 – 1 – 0
Randolph–Macon   –       0 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –       0 – 3 – 1
Michigan   –       0 – 3 – 0
Penn   –       0 – 5 – 0

The 1881 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1881 college football season. They finished with a 5–0–1 record and were retroactively named co-national champions by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
October 29 at Amherst* Amherst, MA W 2–0  
November 2 Michigan* Hamilton Park • New Haven, CT W 2–0  
November 5 Amherst* Hamilton Park • New Haven, CT W 4–0  
November 12 Harvard* Hamilton Park • New Haven, CT (The Game) W 1–0  
November 17 vs. Columbia* New York, NY W 1–0  
November 24 vs. Princeton* New York, NY T 0–0  
*Non-conference game.

References

  1. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ 1881 Yale University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 9, 2014.
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