1872 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1872 Yale Bulldogs football Independent 1–0 None David Schley Schaff Hamilton Park Co-national champion (Davis) none The 1872 Yale Bulldogs football team was a football team that represented Yale University in the 1872 college football season. The team (which played a game based on the association football laws)Best of the 1870s: The defining players and teams of college football’s first decade by Matt Brown on The Athletic, January 28, 2019 finished with a 1–0 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2017/FBS.pdf National Poll Champions National Collegiate Athletic Association 2017 NCAA Division I Football Records 110 December 31, 2017 They played Columbia at Hamilton Park and won 3–0.1872 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football February 27, 2017 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/yale/1872-schedule.html Each team had 20 players and the field was 400 feet long and 250 wide (134 by 83 yards). Tommy Sherman scored the first goal and Lew Irwin the other two.Timeline of Yale Football http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-footbl/2014-15/files/TIMELINE_OF_YALE_FOOTBALL_after_2014_season.doc Yale University 9 January 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20150912102915/http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-footbl/2014-15/files/TIMELINE_OF_YALE_FOOTBALL_after_2014_season.doc 12 September 2015 dead The team's captain was David Schley Schaff, who attended the Rugby School in England where he learned to play football.Football by Year http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-footbl/2016-17/files/year_by_year_results_thru_2016.pdf Yale University 9 January 2018 en 9 January 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180109180840/http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-footbl/2016-17/files/year_by_year_results_thru_2016.pdf dead Schedule November 16 2:45 p.m. w Columbia Hamilton Park New Haven, CT 3–0 400 Foot-ball—The Inter-University Match Between Yale and Columbia https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98406265/the-new-york-times/ The New York Times New York, New York November 17, 1872 1 March 25, 2022 Newspapers.com See also List of the first college football game in each US state References Yale Category:Yale Bulldogs football seasons Category:College football national champions Category:College football undefeated seasons Yale Bulldogs football