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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