1888 Yale Bulldogs football team

1888 Yale Bulldogs football
Consensus national champion
IFA champion
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1888 record 13–0 ( )
Head coach Walter Camp (1st year)
Captain Pa Corbin
Home stadium Yale Field
1888 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale   –       13 – 0 – 0
USC   –       2 – 0 – 0
Notre Dame   –       1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –       12 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –       11 – 1 – 0
California   –       6 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –       4 – 2 – 0
Michigan   –       2 – 1 – 0
Northwestern   –       2 – 1 – 0
Wake Forest   –       2 – 1 – 0
Trinity   –       2 – 1 – 0
Lake Forest   –       2 – 2 – 0
Minnesota   –       1 – 1 – 0
Indiana   –       0 – 0 – 1
Miami (OH)   –       0 – 0 – 1
Massachusetts   –       2 – 4 – 0
Richmond   –       1 – 2 – 0
North Carolina   –       1 – 3 – 0
Navy   –       1 – 4 – 0
WPI   –       1 – 4 – 0
Rutgers   –       1 – 7 – 1
Penn State   –       0 – 2 – 1

The 1888 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1888 college football season. The team finished with a 13–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
September 29 Wesleyan* Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 76–0  
October 6 Rutgers* Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 65–0  
October 13 at Penn* Philadelphia, PA W 34–0  
October 16 at Wesleyan* Middletown, CT W 46–0  
October 19 at Amherst* Amherst, MA W 39–0  
October 20 at Williams* Williamstown, MA W 30–0  
October 24 vs. MIT* Hartford, CT W 68–0  
October 27 Stevens Tech* Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 69–0  
November 3 Penn* Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 54–0  
November 6 Crescent Athletic Club* Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 28–0  
November 10 Amherst* Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 70–0  
November 17 Wesleyan* Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 105–0  
November 24 vs. Princeton* Polo Grounds • New York, NY W 10–0  
*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. ↑ 1888 Yale University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 20, 2014.
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