1890 Yale Bulldogs football team

1890 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference Independent
1890 record 13–1
Head coach Walter Camp (3rd year)
1890 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale   –       13 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –       11 – 0 – 0
California   –       4 – 0 – 0
Washington   –       0 – 0 – 1
Columbia   –       1 – 5 – 1
Colorado   –       0 – 4 – 0

The 1890 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1890 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 13–1 record under third-year head coach Walter Camp, who became known as the "Father of American Football". The 1890 team recorded 12 shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 486 to 18. Its only loss was to rival Harvard by a 12–6 score.[1][2]

Three Yale players (halfback Thomas McClung, guard Pudge Heffelfinger, and tackle William Rhodes) were consensus picks for the 1890 College Football All-America Team.[3] All three 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. ↑ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
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