1903 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1903 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach George B. Chadwick. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 206 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Princeton.[1]

1903 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
1903 record	11–1
Head coach	George B. Chadwick (1st season)
Home stadium	Yale Field

1903 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					9	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					9	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					9	–	1	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	1	–	0
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					9	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					9	–	3	–	0
Army			–					6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					6	–	2	–	1
Amherst			–					7	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					5	–	5	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	8	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	5	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	5	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	6	–	1
Western U. Penn.			–					1	–	8	–	1

Four Yale players (fullback Ledyard Mitchell, end Charles D. Rafferty, tackle James Hogan and guard James Bloomer) were consensus picks for the 1903 College Football All-America Team.[2] Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick,[3] and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the San Antonio Daily Light.[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 26	Trinity (CT)	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 35–0
September 30	Tufts	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 19–0
October 3	Vermont	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 46–0
October 7	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 33–0
October 10	Springfield YMCA	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–0
October 14	Holy Cross	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 36–10
October 17	Penn State	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 27–0
October 24	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 17–5
October 31	Columbia	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 25–0
November 7	Syracuse	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 30–0
November 14	Princeton	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 6–11
November 21	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 16–0

References

1. "1903 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. "Crack Football Eleven". Los Angeles Times. November 30, 1903.
4. "The Ideal All-American Team". San Antonio Daily Light. December 14, 1903.