1879 Yale Bulldogs football team

1879 Yale Bulldogs football
Yale Bulldogs, co-national champions
Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	3–0–2
Head coach	None
Captain	Walter Camp
Home stadium	Hamilton Park

1879 college football records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					4	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	2
Massachusetts			–					1	–	0	–	0
Michigan			–					1	–	0	–	1
Haverford			–					1	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					2	–	1	–	2
Penn			–					2	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					1	–	1	–	0
Navy			–					0	–	0	–	1
McGill			–					0	–	0	–	1
Toronto			–					0	–	0	–	1
Stevens			–					1	–	2	–	5
Rutgers			–					1	–	2	–	3
Pennsylvania Military			–					0	–	1	–	1
NYU			–					0	–	2	–	1
Racine			–					0	–	1	–	0
Swarthmore			–					0	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					0	–	3	–	2

The 1879 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1879 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0–2 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[1][2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
November 1		vs. Penn	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ	W 3–0		[3]
November 8		Harvard	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT (rivalry)	T 0–0	1,500–2,000	[4]
November 15		Rutgers	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 5–0	300	[5]
November 22	3:00 p.m.	vs. Columbia	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ	W 2–0		[6]
November 27	2:40 p.m.	vs. Princeton	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)	T 0–0	6,000–7,000	[7][8]

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Roster

• Forwards: Franklin M. Eaton, John S. Harding, Louis K. Hull, Benjamin B. Lamb, Howard H. Knapp, John Moorhead Jr., Frederic Remington, Charles S. Beck
• Halfbacks: Walter Irving Badger, Walter Camp, George H. Clark, William A. Peters, Robert W. Watson
• Backs: William K. Nixon, Chester W. Lyman
• Others: Benjamin Wisner Bacon, John S. Durand, John F. Merrill, Charles B. Storrs, Frederick R. Vernon
• Manager: Eugene W. Walker

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References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. "1879 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "College Foot Ball". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 3, 1879. p. 2. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
4. "Football: Annual Match Between the Teams of Yale and Harvard". New York Daily Herald. November 9, 1879. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Match Between The College Teams Of Rutgers, Of New York, and Yale, Of New Haven". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 16, 1879. p. 12. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
6. "Desperate Struggle Between Yale and Columbia At Hoboken—The New Haven Boys Victorious". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 23, 1879. p. 13. Retrieved April 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
7. "Kicking The Leather Egg". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 28, 1879. p. 8. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
8. "Foot-ball.–A Hotly-Contested Game Between Yale and Princeton Ends in a Draw". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 28, 1879. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
9. Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 81.
10. Tim Cohane (1951). The Yale Football Story. Putnam. p. 343.
11. "Yale Football 2009 Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. pp. 113–125.