1872 Yale Bulldogs football team

1872 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	1–0
Head coach	None
Captain	David Schley Schaff
Home stadium	Hamilton Park

1872 college football records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					1	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					1	–	0	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	1	–	1
Columbia			–					1	–	2	–	1
Stevens			–					0	–	1	–	0

The 1872 Yale Bulldogs football team was a football team that represented Yale University in the 1872 college football season. The team (which played a game based on the association football laws)^[1] finished with a 1–0 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[2]

They played Columbia at Hamilton Park and won 3–0.^[3] Each team had 20 players and the field was 400 feet long and 250 wide (134 by 83 yards). Tommy Sherman scored the first goal and Lew Irwin the other two.^[4] The team's captain was David Schley Schaff, who attended the Rugby School in England where he learned to play football.^[5]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
November 16	2:45 p.m.	Columbia	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 3–0	400	[6]

See also

• List of the first college football game in each US state

References

1. Best of the 1870s: The defining players and teams of college football’s first decade by Matt Brown on The Athletic, January 28, 2019
2. "National Poll Champions" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 110. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
3. "1872 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
4. "Timeline of Yale Football". Yale University. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
5. "Football by Year" (PDF). Yale University. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
6. "Foot-ball—The Inter-University Match Between Yale and Columbia". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 17, 1872. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .