1906 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1906 Yale Bulldogs football 1906-Yale-Bulldogs-football-group.jpg 250 Independent 9–0–1 Foster Rockwell 1st Samuel Finley Brown Morse Yale Field National champion(Whitney, Davis, Billingsley) The 1906 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team compiled a 9–0–1 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 144 to 7.1906 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football February 27, 2017 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/yale/1906-schedule.html Four Yale players were selected as consensus All-Americans, and the team was selected by multiple selectors as the national champion for 1906. Schedule Eastern October 3 w 1906 Wesleyan Methodists Wesleyan Yale Field New Haven, CT 21–0 Yale Easy Winner Under New Rules The Hartford Courant October 4, 1906 8 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98196060/yale-easy-winner-under-new-rules/ Newspapers.com October 6 w Syracuse Yale Field New Haven, CT 51–0 Big Score at Yale: Eli Players Defeat Syracuse 51 to 0 in a Sensational Game The Brooklyn Daily Eagle October 7, 1906 19 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98195023/big-score-at-yale/ Newspapers.com October 10 w Springfield Training School Yale Field New Haven, CT 12–0 1,000 Twelve Points For Yale https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98464780/the-morning-journal-courier/ Journal Courier New Haven, Connecticut October 11, 1906 1 March 26, 2022 Newspapers.com Twelve Points For Yale (continued) https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98464906/the-morning-journal-courier/ Journal Courier New Haven, Connecticut October 11, 1906 3 March 26, 2022 Newspapers.com Yale Had To Play Hard Football The Hartford Courant October 11, 1906 14 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98196184/yale-had-to-play-hard-football/ Newspapers.com October 13 w Holy Cross Yale Field New Haven, CT 17–0 1,000 Yale's Form Holds October 14, 1906 11 The New York Times New York, N.Y. Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73576403/1906-yale-hc/ Yale 17, Holy Cross 0 The Boston Globe October 14, 1906 2 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98195818/yale-holy-cross/ Newspapers.com October 20 w Penn State Yale Field New Haven, CT 10–0 Yale 10, Penn State 0 The Boston Globe October 21, 1906 10 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98196336/yale-10-penn-state-0/ Newspapers.com October 27 w 1906 Amherst Amherst Yale Field New Haven, CT 12–0 Amherst Scares Yale New York Tribune October 28, 1906 10 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98195454/amherst-scares-yale/ Newspapers.com November 3 w y Army The Plain West Point, NY 10–6 Yale field goal Wins Luckiest of Victories The New York Times November 4, 1906 11 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98194841/army-yale/ Newspapers.com November 10 w Brown Yale Field New Haven, CT 5–0 Yale Team Is Given Scare: Brown Holds the New Haven Players to Small Score of Five to Nothing Chicago Tribune November 11, 1906 13 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98195273/yale-team-is-given-scare-brown-holds/ Newspapers.com November 17 2:08 p.m. t y Princeton University Field Princeton, NJ rivalry 0–0 30,000 Princeton, 0; Yale, 0; End Of The Game https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98967966/harrisburg-daily-independent/ The Star-Independent Harrisburg, Pennsylvania November 17, 1906 1 April 3, 2022 Newspapers.com Big Football Battle Draw: Yale and Princeton Teams Fight in Vain to Score in Two Long Halves New York Tribune November 18, 1906 1 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98194612/princeton-yale/ Newspapers.comNeither Side Could Score: The Princeton-Yale Football Game a Wonder Chattanooga Daily Times November 18, 1906 5 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98332713/neither-side-could-score-the/ Newspapers.com November 24 w Harvard Yale Field New Haven, CT rivalry 6–0 Yale Triumphs, 6-0, By Brainy Football The Boston Globe November 25, 1906 1 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98194281/yale-triumphs-6-0-by-brainy-football/ Newspapers.com National champions In the January 1907 edition of The Outing Magazine, Caspar Whitney ranked Yale first among the nation's teams for 1906.Whitney Caspar Whitney Caspar January 1907 XLIX 4 534–537 The View-Point: Ranking Football 1906 Teams https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d025530297&seq=579 The Outing Magazine Outing Publishing Company January 25, 2024 This ranking is not based only on comparative scores, but on style of play, conditions under which games were contested, relative importance of games on the schedule—especially with regard to each teams's "big" game, for which it was particularly trained—as well as the season's all-round record of the elevens under discussion. My intent in the study is its object lesson on comparative football development throughout the country. Parke H. Davis selected the team as national champions in the 1934 edition of Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide. Later, they were also selected by the Billingsley Report. Other selectors (Helms, NCF) chose Princeton as the national champion.http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2015/FBS.pdf National Poll Rankings National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2015 NCAA Division I Football Records NCAA 108 January 4, 2016 Yale and Princeton both finished with undefeated seasons and played each other to a 0–0 tie on November 17, 1906. Key players thumb|left|The Yale eleven on the Yale Alumni Weekly Four Yale players were among the eleven selected as consensus first-team players on the 1906 All-America team.Football Award Winners National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2016 October 21, 2017 6 http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf Yale's four consensus All Americans were: halfback William F. Knox; fullback Paul Veeder; end Robert Forbes; and tackle Lucius Horatio Biglow. Five other Yale players receiving All-American honors were quarterback Tad Jones, fullback Samuel F. B. Morse, center Clarence Hockenberger, end Clarence Alcott, and Arthur Brides.Walter Camp Football Foundation http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards// dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090330065940/http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards 2009-03-30 Caspar Whitney The View-Point Outing 1907 537 https://books.google.com/books?id=Wa9hAAAAIAAJ'Bob' Edgren Picks Out An All-American Team: Yale and Princeton Predominate His Choice The Post-Standard (Syracuse) 1905-12-03New Football Produces Individual Brilliancy: Many Players Merit Places on Fanciful All-American Team The New York Times 1906-12-09 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/12/09/101810947.pdf The 1906 college football season was a year of change. Following controversies in 1905 over the increase of violence and professionalism in college football, a number of rule changes were implemented in 1906. The most lasting change introduced in 1906 was the forward pass. Yale's Paul Veeder and Bob Forbes combined for one of the first important pass plays, a play described in one history of the game as follows: "The only other significant pass that season was thrown by Yale, which gained a first down that led to victory over Harvard, when Paul Veeder threw thirty yards to Bob Forbes."Sally Jenkins The Real All Americans 232 2007 Knopf Doubleday Publishing 9780385522991 https://books.google.com/books?id=rTb3F21EnpAC References Yale Category:Yale Bulldogs football seasons Category:College football national champions Category:College football undefeated seasons Yale Bulldogs football