1887 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1887 Yale Bulldogs football
Yale Bulldogs football team (1887).jpg
National champion
IFA champion
ConferenceIntercollegiate Football Association
Record9–0 ( IFA)
Head coach
  • None
CaptainHarry Beecher
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1886
1888 →
1887 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   4 – 3 – 0
Williams   –   3 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 7 – 0
Wesleyan   –   4 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   4 – 6 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 6 – 0
Bucknell   –   0 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   0 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   0 – 2 – 0
Vermont   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1887 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as a member of the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) during the 1887 college football season. The team compiled a perfect 9–0 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 515 to 12.[1] Quarterback Harry Beecher was the team's captain.[2]

There was no contemporaneous system in 1887 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5Wesleyan
W 38–0[4]
October 15at WesleyanMiddletown, CTW 106–0[5]
October 22at WilliamsWilliamstown, MAW 74–0[6]
October 29at Penn
W 50–0[7]
November 5Rutgers
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 74–0[8]
November 8vs. Crescent Athletic Club
W 70–0[9]
November 12Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 68–4[10]
November 19vs. Princeton
W 12–0[11]
November 242:00 p.m.vs. Harvard
W 17–815,000[12]

[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "1887 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Football at Yale: Football the Chief Topic on the Campus". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier. September 30, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  4. ^ "Yale Victorious: First Game of the Season - Wesleyan Defeated in a Tame Game at the Yale Field". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier. October 6, 1897. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Yale Victorious: Overwhelming Defeat of Wesleyan's Foot Ball Team - Score, 106-0". The Boston Globe. October 16, 1887. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale, 74; Williams, 0". New York Tribune. October 23, 1887. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale Wins at Foot-Ball: The Pennsylvanians Defeated by a Score of 50 to 0". The Times-Philadelphia. October 30, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale's Heavy Rushers: Rutgers Easily Defeated, Seventy-four to Nothing". The Boston Globe. November 6, 1887. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale Foot Ball Kickers: Harry Beecher Helped Them Annihilate the Brookly Crescents". The Brooklyn Daily Eagles. November 9, 1887. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Yale Defeats Wesleyan". The Times-Philadelphia. November 13, 1887. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Yale Triumphs in the Mud". The Sun (New York). November 20, 1887. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Yale Outplays Harvard". The New York Times. November 25, 1887. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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