1874 Yale Bulldogs football team

1874 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (NCF) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	3–0
Head coach	None
Captain	Hugh J. McBirney
Home stadium	Hamilton Park

1874 college football records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					2	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					1	–	1	–	0
Tufts			–					1	–	0	–	0
Stevens			–					3	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	3	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	1	–	0
McGill			–					0	–	1	–	0

The 1874 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1874 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0 record and was retroactively named national champion by the National Championship Foundation and as co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[1][2] The team captain was Hugh J. McBirney.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
November 18	Stevens	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 6–0
November 21	Columbia	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 5–1	[4]
December 5	Columbia	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 6–1

References

1. "National Poll Champions" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 110. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
2. "1874 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "Timeline of Yale Football". Yale University. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
4. "Untitled". The Morning Republican. Scranton, Pennsylvania. November 24, 1874. p. 1. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .