1895 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1895 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 13–0–2 record and was retroactively named as a co-national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

1895 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
1895 record	13–0–2
Head coach	John A. Hartwell (1st season)
Captain	Sam Thorne
Home stadium	Yale Field

1895 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					14	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					13	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					10	–	1	–	1
Harvard			–					8	–	2	–	1
Lafayette			–					6	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	2	–	2
Army			–					5	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					8	–	5	–	0
Wesleyan			–					6	–	3	–	0
Amherst			–					6	–	5	–	0
Brown			–					7	–	6	–	1
Carlisle			–					4	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					2	–	2	–	3
Cornell			–					3	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					2	–	3	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	2
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	0
CCNY			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					1	–	4	–	1
MIT			–					1	–	4	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					1	–	4	–	0
Massachusetts			–					1	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					1	–	6	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 28	at Trinity (CT)	Hartford, CT	W 8–0
October 2	Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 4–0
October 5	at Union (NY)	Schenectady, NY	W 26–0
October 9	Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 36–0
October 12	at Crescent Athletic Club	Eastern Park Brooklyn, NY	W 8–2	[3]
October 16	vs. Dartmouth	Hampden Park Springfield, MA	W 26–0
October 19	at Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval Orange, NJ	W 24–12
October 23	Williams	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 54–0
October 26	Boston Athletic Association	Yale Field New Haven, CT	T 0–0
October 30	Dartmouth	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 32–0
November 2	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 28–8
November 6	Carlisle	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 18–0
November 9	at Brown	Providence, RI	T 6–6
November 16	at Orange Athletic Club	Orange, NJ	W 26–0
November 23	vs. Princeton	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	W 20–10

[2]

Posed photo of the full roster of the 1895 Yale football team

References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. "1895 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "Crescents Surprise Yale". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 13, 1895. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.