1883 Yale Bulldogs football team

1883 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
Conference	Independent
Record	9–0
Head coach	None
Captain	Ray Tompkins
Home stadium	Hamilton Park

1883 college football records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	0
Gallaudet			–					2	–	0	–	0
Carleton			–					1	–	0	–	0
Johns Hopkins			–					1	–	0	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					8	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	2	–	1
Stevens			–					6	–	4	–	1
Massachusetts			–					1	–	1	–	0
Minnesota			–					1	–	1	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	3	–	0
Williams			–					1	–	1	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	5	–	0
Michigan			–					2	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	4	–	0
Johns Hopkins			–					1	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	0
Amherst			–					0	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					0	–	1	–	0
Hamline			–					0	–	1	–	0
Lewisburg			–					0	–	1	–	0
Navy			–					0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	2	–	0
Columbian University			–					0	–	2	–	0
Georgetown			–					0	–	2	–	0

The 1883 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1883 college football season. The team compiled a 9–0 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 540 to 2.^[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26		Wesleyan	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 58–0
September 29		at Wesleyan	Middletown, CT	W 90–0
October 6		Stevens	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 59–0		[3]
November 6	3:20 p.m.	vs. Rutgers	Washington Park Brooklyn, NY	W 92–0	nearly 1,000	[4][5]
November 14		Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute	Brooklyn, NY	W 49–0
November 17		vs. Columbia	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 93–0	400–500	[6]
November 21		Michigan	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 64–0	400
November 24	2:15 p.m.	vs. Princeton	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	W 6–0	5,000–6,000	[7]
November 29	2:37 p.m.	vs. Harvard	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	W 23–2	nearly 10,000	[8]

^[1]

Roster

• Rushers: Samuel Reading Bertron (4), Howard H. Knapp, F. G. Peters (4), Ray Tompkins, A. L. Farwell (4), Williams (4), Louis K. Hull, W. P. McCrorey
• Quarterback: Henry Twombly (4)
• Halfbacks: Wyllys Terry, Eugene Lamb Richards
• Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon

References

1. "1883 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
3. "Yale vs. Stevens Institute". The Harvard Crimson. October 12, 1883.
4. "The Yale-Rutgers Football Game". Morning Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. November 7, 1883. p. 3. Retrieved August 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com .
5. "Yale Easily Defeats Rutgers". New York Tribune. November 7, 1883. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Two Games of Football". The Sun. November 18, 1883. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Yale Beats Princeton". The Sun. November 25, 1883. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Yale Again Victorious". New York Tribune. November 30, 1883. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.