1875 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1875 Yale Bulldogs football Yale football team 1875.jpg 285 Independent 2–2 None William Arnold Hamilton Park The 1875 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1875 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 2–2 record. The team won games against Rutgers and Wesleyan and lost to Harvard and Columbia.1875 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football February 27, 2017 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/yale/1875-schedule.html In this season, the first Yale vs Harvard contest was held, two years after the inaugural Yale vs Princeton football contest. Harvard athlete Nathaniel Curtis challenged Yale's captain, William Arnold, to a rugby-style game.http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.171.html/2005/important-sports-memorabilia-and-cards-n08155 First Harvard versus Yale Football Game Program, 1875 - lot - Sotheby's sothebys.comhttp://www.theunbalancedline.com/2010/03/year-by-year-1875.html Year by Year 1875 theunbalancedline.com December 3, 2023 October 7, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241007202003/http://www.theunbalancedline.com/2010/03/year-by-year-1875.html dead The next season Curtis was captain.http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_Captains_Media_Center Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football - All-Time Football Captains Harvard 2021-01-10 2013-02-16 https://archive.today/20130216043845/http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_Captains_Media_Center dead He took one look at Walter Camp, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captain Gene Baker "You don't mean to let that child play, do you? . . . He will get hurt."http://www.theunbalancedline.com/2010/03/year-by-year-1875.html September 8, 1962 Camp Curbed the Carnage Spokane Daily Chronicle October 7, 2024 December 3, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20241007202003/http://www.theunbalancedline.com/2010/03/year-by-year-1875.html deadhttps://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19751121&id=mLgsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4gkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1131,4642309&hl=en Star-News - Google News Archive Search google.com The two teams agreed to play under a set of rules called the "Concessionary Rules", which involved Harvard conceding something to Yale's soccer and Yale conceding a great deal to Harvard's rugby.No Christian End! http://www.profootballresearchers.com/articles/No_Christian_End.pdf January 26, 2010 The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889 Professional Football Researchers Association The game featured a round ball instead of a rugby-style oblong ball,Parke H. Davis https://archive.org/stream/football002320mbp#page/n77/mode/2up Football, the American intercollegiate game 64 Parke H. Davis and caused Yale to drop association football in favor of rugby.THE BOSTON GAME https://web.archive.org/web/20221128101012/https://www.academia.edu/34307566/THE_BOSTON_GAME November 28, 2022 article by Michael T. Geary at academia.edu Schedule November 6 w Rutgers Hamilton Park New Haven, CT 4–1 November 13 l Harvard Hamilton Park New Haven, CT rivalry 0–4 Football Game Between Harvard and Yale Today https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98665768/the-boston-globe/ The Boston Daily Globe Boston, Massachusetts November 13, 1875 5 March 29, 2022 Newspapers.com Foot Ball.—The Match Between Harvard And Yale – Harvard Victorious https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98665609/boston-evening-transcript/ Boston Evening Transcript Boston, Massachusetts November 15, 1875 1 March 29, 2022 Newspapers.com November 20 w Wesleyan Hamilton Park New Haven, CT 6–0 December 4 l Columbia Hamilton Park New Haven, CT 2–3 left 500 Harvard vs yale program 1875.jpg 1875 collegenews at bostonglobe.jpg Left: Program for the "Foot Ball Match", Harvard versus Yale, the first intercollegiate rugby football game between Ivy League teams. The two teams played with 15 players on a side; right: News about the Harvard v Yale game played under the "concessionary rules" in 1875. It is considered the first rugby-style game in the US See also Yale Rugby References Yale Category:Yale Bulldogs football seasons Yale Bulldogs football