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1884 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion ( Helms, NCF)
Co-national champion ( Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0–1
Head coach
  • None
Captain Eugene Lamb Richards
Home stadium Yale Field
Seasons
←  1883
1885 →
1884 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   8 – 0 – 1
Michigan   –   2 – 0 – 0
Williams   –   2 – 0 – 0
Navy   –   1 – 0 – 0
Wabash   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   5 – 1 – 1
Fordham   –   5 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   7 – 4 – 0
Wesleyan   –   3 – 2 – 0
Butler   –   1 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 1 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
Stevens   –   4 – 5 – 0
Dartmouth   –   1 – 2 – 1
Tufts   –   2 – 4 – 1
Massachusetts   –   1 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   2 – 5 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   1 – 3 – 0
Albion   –   0 – 1 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 1 – 0
DePauw   –   0 – 1 – 0
Olivet   –   0 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   0 – 3 – 0
Lehigh   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1884 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1884 college football season. The team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 495 to 10. [1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. [2]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1 Wesleyan
W 31–0
October 11 Stevens
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 96–0
October 183:00 p.m.vs. Wesleyan
W 63–0 [3]
October 22at Rutgers New Brunswick, NJW 76–10 [4]
October 25at Dartmouth Hanover, NHW 113–0 [5]
November 5Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0
November 19Yale alumni
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0
November 22 Harvard
W 52–02,400 [6]
November 27vs. Princeton
T 0–0over 10,000 [7]

[1]

Roster

References

  1. ^ a b "1884 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ Football ad - Newspapers.com
  4. ^ "College Foot Ball Contests". Evening Star. October 23, 1884. p. 3.
  5. ^ "Saturday's Foot Ball Games". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 27, 1884. p. 1. Retrieved March 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "The Harvards Badly Beaten: The Yale Football Team Whip Them by a Score of 52 to 0". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Hard Work and No Glory: The Princeton-Yale Football Game Declared Drawn". The New York Times. November 28, 1884. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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