1880 Yale Bulldogs football team

1880 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Billingsley) Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	4–0–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Robert W. Watson
Home stadium	Hamilton Park

1880 college football records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					4	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					4	–	0	–	1
Kentucky University			–					2	–	0	–	0
Michigan			–					1	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					2	–	2	–	2
Penn			–					2	–	2	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					0	–	1	–	1
Massachusetts			–					0	–	1	–	1
Stevens			–					1	–	4	–	0
Brown			–					0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	0
Philadelphia Crescent AC			–					0	–	1	–	0
Toronto			–					0	–	1	–	0
Centre			–					0	–	2	–	0

The 1880 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1880 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record, did not allow opposing teams to score a single point, outscored all opponents, 30–0, and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion with Princeton by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.^[1][2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
November 10	3:00 p.m.	Columbia	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 13–0	600	[3][4]
November 13		Brown	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 8–0	250	[5]
November 17		vs. Penn	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 8–0	500	[6][7]
November 20	2:45 p.m.	at Harvard	Boston Baseball Grounds Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 1–0	700	[8]
November 25	2:30 p.m.	vs. Princeton	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	T 0–0	4,000	[9][10]

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Roster

• Rushers: Philo Carroll Fuller, Charles S. Beck, Louis K. Hull, John S. Harding, Benjamin B. Lamb, Charles Bigelow Storrs, Franklin M. Eaton
• Quarterback: Walter Irving Badger
• Halfbacks: Robert W. Watson, Walter Camp
• Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon
• Others: John L. Adams, George H. Clark, John S. Durand, Howard H. Knapp, Chester W. Lyman, John F. Merrill, John Moorhead Jr., William Nixon, William A. Peters, Frederic Remington, Adrian S. Vandegraaf, Frederick R. Vernon
• Manager: William B. Hill

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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. "1880 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "College Notes". Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. November 10, 1880. p. 3. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
4. "A Victory For Yale". Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. November 11, 1880. p. 2. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
5. "College Notes". Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. November 15, 1880. p. 2. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
6. "Yale's Easy Victory At Foot-Ball". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 18, 1880. p. 5. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
7. "College Teams At Foot Ball.—The Pennsylvania University Club Badly Defeated by the Yales". The Sun. New York, New York. November 18, 1880. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
8. "Harvard Vs. Yale". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 21, 1880. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
9. "Vain Work At Foot-Ball". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 26, 1880. p. 2. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
10. "Football In The Snow". The Sun. New York, New York. November 26, 1880. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
11. Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 81.
12. Tim Cohane (1951). The Yale Football Story. Putnam. p. 343.
13. "Yale Football 2009 Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. pp. 113–125.