1913 Yale Bulldogs football team

1913 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–2–3
Head coach	Howard Jones (2nd season)
Captain	Hank Ketcham[1]
Home stadium	Yale Field

1913 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					10	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	0	–	1
Army			–					8	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	0
Tufts			–					7	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					6	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					6	–	2	–	1
Princeton			–					5	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					5	–	2	–	3
Rutgers			–					6	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					4	–	2	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	4	–	1
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	3	–	2
Geneva			–					4	–	4	–	0
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Brown			–					4	–	5	–	0
Duquesne			–					3	–	5	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	4	–	1
Holy Cross			–					3	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					1	–	3	–	2
Penn State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					1	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	8	–	0

The 1913 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1913 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 5–2–3 record.^[2]

Howard Jones, who had previously coached Yale to a national championship in 1909, was hired in February 1913 to return as Yale's head coach.^[3]

Yale tackle Bud Talbott was a consensus pick for the 1913 College Football All-America Team, and four other Yale players (end Benjamin F. Avery and linemen Hank Ketcham, John S. Pendleton and William Marting) received first-team All-America honors from at least one selector.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 21–0
September 27	Holy Cross	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 10–0		[4]
October 4	Maine	Yale Field New Haven, CT	T 0–0
October 11	Lafayette	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 27–0
October 18	Lehigh	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 37–0
October 25	Washington & Jefferson	Yale Field New Haven, CT	T 0–0
November 1	Colgate	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 6–16
November 8	Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 17–0
November 15	Princeton	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	T 3–3
November 22	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 5–15	50,000	[5]

References

1. History of the Class of 1914. Yale College. 1914. p. 218. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
2. "1913 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "Howard Jones Yale Coach". The New York Times. February 16, 1913. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Holy Cross Scares Yale". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. September 28, 1913. Sporting sect., p 1 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 23, 1913). "Harvard Smashes Two Traditions, Pushing Yale Back To 15-5 Defeat". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 8 – via Newspapers.com.