1896 Yale Bulldogs football team

1896 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	13–1
Head coach	Sam Thorne (1st season)
Captain	Fred T. Murphy
Home stadium	Yale Field

1896 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Fordham			–					1	–	0	–	0
Lafayette			–					11	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					10	–	0	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					14	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					13	–	1	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					11	–	2	–	0
Buffalo			–					9	–	1	–	2
Villanova			–					10	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					7	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					5	–	3	–	0
Storrs			–					5	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	2
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Rutgers			–					6	–	6	–	0
Carlisle			–					5	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					2	–	2	–	2
Brown			–					4	–	5	–	1
Wesleyan			–					4	–	5	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	4	–	2
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					3	–	4	–	0
Colgate			–					3	–	4	–	1
Amherst			–					3	–	6	–	1
Western Univ. Penn.			–					3	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					2	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					2	–	6	–	1
Swarthmore			–					2	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					1	–	4	–	0
Drexel			–					1	–	5	–	0
Massachusetts			–					0	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island			–					0	–	4	–	0

The 1896 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1896 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 13–1 record under first-year head coach Sam Thorne. The team recorded nine shutouts and won its first 13 games by a combined 212 to 29 score. It then lost its final game against rival Princeton by a 24–6 score.^[1]

Two Yale players, quarterback Clarence Fincke and tackle Fred T. Murphy, were consensus picks for the 1896 College Football All-America Team.^[2] Leslie's Weekly also picked three other Yale players (ends Lyman Bass and Louis Hinkey and center Burr Chamberlain) as 1896 first-team All-America players.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	at Trinity (CT)	Hartford, CT	W 6–0		[4]
September 30	Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 12–0		[5]
October 7	Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 18–0	1,800	[6][7]
October 10	vs. Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval Orange, NJ	W 12–0	1,000	[8]
October 14	Williams	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–0		[9]
October 17	Dartmouth	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 42–0		[10]
October 21	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 16–0		[11]
October 24	vs. Carlisle	Manattan Field New York, NY	W 12–6	5,000	[12]
October 28	Elizabeth Athletic Club	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 12–6		[13]
October 31	at Army	Parade grounds West Point, NY	W 16–2		[14]
November 3	Boston Athletic Association	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 10–0	2,500	[15]
November 7	at Brown	Adelaide Park Providence, RI	W 18–6	2,500	[16][17]
November 14	New Jersey Athletic Club	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 16–0		[18]
November 21	Princeton	Manhattan Field New York, NY (rivalry)	L 6–24	35,000–50,000	[19][20]

References

1. "1896 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
3. "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
4. "Yale Scores But Once On Trinity's Eleven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 27, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Amherst Gives Yale a Hard Tussle". Boston Post. October 1, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale 18, Brown 0". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
7. "Victory for the Blue". Chicago Tribune. October 8, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Yale, 12; Orange, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 11, 1896. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Yale, 22; Williams, O". Boston Post. October 15, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Yale Beats Dartmouth Easily". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 18, 1896. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Yale, 16; Wesleyan, 0". Boston Post. October 22, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Yale Had a Close Call". The New York Times. October 25, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Close Formation Plays Give Yale a Surprise: Elizabeth A. C. Scores Six Points, and the Blue Goes Them Six Points Better". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 29, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Yale, 16; West Point, 2". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 1, 1896. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Yale, 10; Boston A.A., 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 4, 1896. p. 10.
16. "Yale-Brown". Buffalo Evening News. Buffalo, New York. November 7, 1896. p. 51. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
17. "Brown University Scores Against Yale". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 8, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Yale Held Down: Scored But Sixteen Points Against the New Jersey Athletic Club". Washington Times. November 15, 1896. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
19. "Nassau Beats Eli: Princeton Football Players Bowled Over Yale's Warriors and Won Easily on Manhattan Field". The New York Times. November 22, 1896. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
20. "Princeton Won at Manhattan Field and the Blow Almost Killed Eli". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 22, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.