1879 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1879 Yale Bulldogs football Yale football team 1879.jpg 285 Independent 3–0–2 None Walter Camp Hamilton Park Co-national champion (Davis) The 1879 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1879 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0–2 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.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 105–106 January 4, 2016 1879 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football February 27, 2017 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/yale/1879-schedule.html Schedule November 1 w y Penn St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ 3–0 College Foot Ball https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98654968/the-philadelphia-inquirer/ The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 3, 1879 2 March 29, 2022 Newspapers.com November 8 t Harvard Hamilton Park New Haven, CT rivalry 0–0 1,500–2,000 Football: Annual Match Between the Teams of Yale and Harvard New York Daily Herald November 9, 1879 8 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15322048/football_annual_match_between_the/ Newspapers.com November 15 w Rutgers Hamilton Park New Haven, CT 5–0 300 Match Between The College Teams Of Rutgers, Of New York, and Yale, Of New Haven https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98655245/new-york-daily-herald/ New York Herald New York, New York November 16, 1879 12 March 29, 2022 Newspapers.com November 22 3:00 p.m. w y Columbia St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ 2–0 Desperate Struggle Between Yale and Columbia At Hoboken—The New Haven Boys Victorious. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49869341/new-york-daily-herald/ New York Herald New York, New York November 23, 1879 13 April 29, 2020 Newspapers.com November 27 2:40 p.m. t y Princeton St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ rivalry 0–0 6,000–7,000 Kicking The Leather Egg https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98654617/the-new-york-times/ The New York Times New York, New York November 28, 1879 8 March 29, 2022 Newspapers.com Foot-ball.–A Hotly-Contested Game Between Yale and Princeton Ends in a Draw https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98663029/the-boston-globe/ The Boston Daily Globe Boston, Massachusetts November 28, 1879 1 March 29, 2022 Newspapers.com Background The prospects of the 1879 Yale team were assessed ahead of the season by a football fan from the Harvard class of 1880, Theodore Roosevelt: "Yale has lost Thompson, who has twice turned the scale against us; but otherwise her team will probably be much the same as last year's, and there is plenty of good material with which to fill the vacancies. Captain Camp has already begun to put his men into regular training, running them in the gymnasium. Thirty men have been pledged to play against the team every afternoon...so that there will be no danger of her men suffering from lack of practice. At present it hardly seems as if the team would be as good as last year's, but their playing is improving every day, and nothing but very hard work will enable our men to win the victory. * * * Last year, we had good individual players, but they did not work together nearly as well as the Princeton team, and they were not in as good condition as the Yale men."Theodore Roosevelt, "Foot-Ball at Other Colleges," in Stories from the Harvard Advocate, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1896; pp. 25-26. Roster thumb|left|600px|The 1879 Yale football team: team captain Walter Camp is holding the ball. The following were members of the 1879 Yale football team.A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888 Richard Melancthon Hurd Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor 81 1888 https://books.google.com/books?id=RkxDAAAAYAAJThe Yale Football Story Tim Cohane Putnam 1951 343Yale Football 2009 Media Guide Yale University 2009 113–125 https://issuu.com/ivyleaguemanual/docs/yale-football-2009-opt Forwards: Charles S. Beck Franklin M. Eaton John S. Harding Louis K. Hull Howard H. Knapp Benjamin B. Lamb John Moorhead Jr. Frederic Remington Backs: Walter Irving Badger Walter Camp — captain George H. Clark Chester W. Lyman William K. Nixon William A. Peters Robert W. Watson Others: Benjamin Wisner Bacon John S. Durand John F. Merrill Charles B. Storrs Frederick R. Vernon Manager: Eugene W. Walker References Yale Category:Yale Bulldogs football seasons Category:College football national champions Category:College football undefeated seasons Yale Bulldogs football