1911 Yale Bulldogs football team

1911 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–2–1
Head coach	John Field (1st season)
Captain	Art Howe
Home stadium	Yale Field

1911 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	1
Carlisle			–					11	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	0	–	2
Trinity (CT)			–					6	–	0	–	2
Temple			–					6	–	1	–	0
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	1	–	1
Dartmouth			–					8	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					7	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					6	–	2	–	1
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					4	–	3	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	2
Dickinson			–					4	–	4	–	0
Lehigh			–					5	–	5	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
Dickinson			–					4	–	4	–	0
St. Bonaventure			–					2	–	2	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	3
Colgate			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					3	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					1	–	5	–	1
Geneva			–					1	–	6	–	1
Villanova			–					0	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					0	–	7	–	0

The 1911 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1911 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 7–2–1 record under first-year head coach John Field.^[1]

Three Yale players, end Douglas Bomeisler, center Hank Ketcham and quarterback Art Howe, were consensus picks for the 1911 College Football All-America Team. Walter Camp's son, Walter C. Camp, Jr., played at the halfback position for the 1911 Bulldogs and received second-team All-America honors from his father and from Wilton S. Farnsworth.^[2][3] Yale fullback Jesse Philbin also received first-team All-America honors from Farnsworth.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 21–0
September 30	Holy Cross	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 26–0
October 7	Syracuse	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 12–0
October 14	VPI	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 33–0
October 21	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–6
October 28	Colgate	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 23–0
November 4	NYU	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 28–3
November 11	Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 15–0
November 18	Princeton	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 3–6	35,000	[4][5]
November 25	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	T 0–0

References

1. "1911 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "Walter Camp Picks All-American Team: Unquestioned Football Authority of Country Selects Best Men". The Lexington Herald. December 10, 1911.
3. "Latest Sporting News All-American Football Team Selected by W. S. Farnsworth". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. December 10, 1911.
4. "Princeton Wins on Yale Field: Sam White Again the Hero of an Orange and Black Victory". The New York Times. November 19, 1911. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Princeton Beats Yale By White's Run". New York Tribune. November 19, 1911. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.