1890 Yale Bulldogs football team

1890 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record13–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Rhodes
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1889
1891 →
1890 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   11 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   13 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   11 – 1 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   8 – 2 – 0
Navy   –   5 – 1 – 1
Penn   –   11 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   2 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 4 – 0
Syracuse   –   7 – 4 – 0
Springfield YMCA   –   5 – 3 – 0
Lehigh   –   6 – 4 – 0
Delaware   –   3 – 2 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 5 – 1
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   1 – 1 – 0
Wesleyan   –   5 – 6 – 0
Tufts   –   2 – 3 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 4 – 0
Western Univ. Penn   –   1 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   2 – 5 – 1
Brown   –   2 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   1 – 4 – 1
Fordham   –   1 – 3 – 1
Massachusetts   –   1 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 5 – 1
Army   –   0 – 1 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 1 – 0

The 1890 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1890 college football season. In its third year under head coach Walter Camp, the team compiled a 13–1 record, recorded 12 shutouts, and outscored all opponents by a total of 486 to 18. Its only loss was to rival Harvard by a 12–6 score.[1]

Three Yale players (halfback Thomas McClung, guard Pudge Heffelfinger, and tackle William Rhodes) were consensus picks for the 1890 College Football All-America Team.[2] All three have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1 Wesleyan
W 8–0 [3]
October 4at Crescent Athletic Club
W 18–64,000[4]
October 8at Wesleyan Middletown, CTW 34–0 [5]
October 11 Lehigh
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 26–0 [6]
October 15at Trinity (CT) Hartford, CTW 40–0500[7]
October 18at Orange Athletic Club
W 16–0 [8]
October 22 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–0 [9]
October 25at Amherst Amherst, MAW 12–0 [10]
November 1 Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 76–0 [11]
November 4at Crescent Athletic Club
  • Washington Park
  • Brooklyn, NY
W 52–08,000[12]
November 8 Rutgers
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 70–0 [13]
November 15 Penn
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 60–0 [14]
November 222:30 p.m.vs. Harvard
L 6–1215,000–17,000[15][16][17][18]
November 27vs. Princeton
W 32–010,000[19][20]

References

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  1. ^ "1890 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. ^ "The Season Opened At Yale". The Sun (New York). October 2, 1890. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Weak In The Rush Line: The Crescents Succumb to Yale's Foot Ball Team". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 5, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Yale 34, Wesleyan 0". The Hartford Courant. October 9, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale Defeats Lehigh". The Times (Philadelphia). October 12, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale, 40; Trinity, 0". The World (New York). October 16, 1890. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale Makes Sixteen Points". New York Tribune. October 19, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale Plays At Home". The New York Times. October 23, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Yale's Slender Victory Over Amherst". New York Tribune. October 26, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Wesleyan No Match For Yale". New York Tribune. November 2, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Yale's Victory". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 5, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Rhodes Went To See Harvard". The New York Times. November 9, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Yale Victorious: The "Varsity" Boys Meet With a Waterloo in New Haven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 16, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Crimson: Even Ladies, Who Blushed". The Boston Globe. November 23, 1890. pp. 1, 4.
  16. ^ "Coming of the Thousands". The Boston Globe. November 23, 1890. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Harvard's Jubilee: Her Team Defeats Yale in the Great Football Game at Springfield". New York Tribune. November 23, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Yale Whipped By Harvard". The Sun. New York, New York. November 23, 1890. p. 8. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  19. ^ "Yale's Blue Kickers Win". The Sun (New York). November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Fall of a Crowded Stand". The Sun (New York). November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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