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1900 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1900 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. The team finished with a 12–0 record, shut out ten of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 336 to 10.[1] Malcolm McBride was the head coach, and Gordon Brown was the team captain.

1900 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–0
Head coach
CaptainGordon Brown
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1899
1901 →
1900 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   12 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   10 – 2 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 1 – 1
Lafayette   –   9 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   7 – 2 – 1
Princeton   –   8 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   5 – 2 – 0
Fordham   –   3 – 1 – 1
Army   –   7 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   7 – 3 – 1
Villanova   –   5 – 2 – 2
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 3 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 3 – 2
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 1
Carlisle   –   6 – 4 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 2 – 2
Dickinson   –   5 – 4 – 0
Western Univ. of Penn   –   5 – 4 – 0
Bucknell   –   4 – 4 – 1
Pittsburgh College   –   3 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –   4 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 4 – 1
Lehigh   –   5 – 6 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 5 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 4 – 1
Penn State   –   4 – 6 – 1
Amherst   –   4 – 7 – 1
Dartmouth   –   2 – 4 – 2
NYU   –   3 – 6 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 6 – 1
Wesleyan   –   3 – 6 – 1
New Hampshire   –   1 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   2 – 8 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 1 – 0

Yale is the only team retroactively named as the national champion for 1900 by NCAA-designated "major selectors". Those include the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[2]

Seven Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1900 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback William Fincke; halfback George B. Chadwick; fullback Perry Hale; center Herman Olcott; guard Gordon Brown; and tackles George S. Stillman and James Bloomer.[3]

Schedule edit

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Trinity (CT)
W 22–0[4]
October 3Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–01,500[5]
October 6Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 30–02,300[6]
October 10Bates
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 50–0[7]
October 133:15 p.m.vs. Dartmouth
W 17–0[8]
October 17Bowdoin
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 30–0[9]
October 20Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 38–04,000[10]
October 27at Columbia
W 12–58,000[11][12]
November 3at Army
W 18–0[13]
November 10Carlisle
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 35–0[14]
November 172:45 p.m.at Princeton
W 29–5[15][16][17]
November 24Harvard
W 28–020,000[18][19]

References edit

  1. ^ "1900 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 Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Yale Played a Good Game: Trinity Defeated 23 to 0 -- The Blue Almost Scored On". The Philadelphia Times. September 30, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Yale Beats Amherst 27 to 0". The Hartford Courant. October 4, 1900. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale 30, Tufts 0". The Boston Globe. October 7, 1900. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale Wins From Bates". New Haven Morning Journal and Courier. October 11, 1900. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale 17; Dartmouth 0". New York Tribune. October 14, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale Runs Up Big Score". The Boston Globe. October 18, 1900. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Shock For Yale: Wesleyan Boys Got to Her 15-Yard Line". The Boston Globe. October 21, 1900. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Columbia's Mighty Stand". New York Tribune. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Columbia's Game Fight". The Sun. October 28, 1900 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Yale in the Dumps: Slump Has Overwhelmed the Eleven of Giants". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1900. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Great Is Eli: Yale Piles Up 35 Points Against Carlisle". The Boston Globe. November 11, 1900. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Yale Scores 29, Princeton 5". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 1900. pp. 1, 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Yale Buries Princeton: Sons of Eli Score 29 to 5 by the Tigers". The New York Times. November 18, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Yale 28, Harvard 0: Blues Outclass Crimsons in All Departments of Football". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1900. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Yale Football Champions of 1900: Harvard Beaten in the Annual Game at New Haven". The New York Times. November 25, 1900. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
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