1879 Yale Bulldogs football team

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.[1][2]

1879 Yale Bulldogs football
Yale Bulldogs, co-national champions
Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
1879 record	3–0–2
Head coach	None
Captain	Walter Camp
Home stadium	Hamilton Park

1879 college football records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					4	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	2
Massachusetts			–					1	–	0	–	0
Michigan			–					1	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					2	–	1	–	2
Penn			–					2	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					1	–	1	–	0
Navy			–					0	–	0	–	1
McGill			–					0	–	0	–	1
Toronto			–					0	–	0	–	1
Stevens			–					1	–	2	–	5
Rutgers			–					1	–	2	–	3
PA Military			–					0	–	1	–	2
Racine			–					0	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					0	–	3	–	2
Swarthmore			–					0	–	0	–	1

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
November 1		vs. Penn	Hoboken, NJ	W 3–0
November 8		Harvard	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT (rivalry)	T 0–0
November 15		Rutgers	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 5–0
November 22	3:00 p.m.	vs. Columbia	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ	W 2–0	[3]
November 27		vs. Princeton	Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)	T 0–0

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Roster

• Forwards: Franklin M. Eaton, John S. Harding, Louis K. Hull, Benjamin B. Lamb, Howard H. Knapp, John Moorhead Jr., Frederic Remington, Charles S. Beck
• Halfbacks: Walter Irving Badger, Walter Camp, George H. Clark, William A. Peters, Robert W. Watson
• Backs: William K. Nixon, Chester W. Lyman
• Others: Benjamin Wisner Bacon, John S. Durand, John F. Merrill, Charles B. Storrs, Frederick R. Vernon
• Manager: Eugene W. Walker

Sources:[4][5][6]

References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. "1879 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "Desperate Struggle Between Yale and Columbia At Hoboken—The New Haven Boys Victorious". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 23, 1879. p. 13. Retrieved April 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
4. Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 81.
5. Tim Cohane (1951). The Yale Football Story. Putnam. p. 343.
6. "Yale Football 2009 Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. pp. 113–125.