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1898 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1898 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
CaptainBurr Chamberlain
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     11 0 0
Drexel     7 0 0
Princeton     11 0 1
Penn     12 1 0
Buffalo     8 1 0
Cornell     10 2 0
Swarthmore     9 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     9 2 0
Yale     9 2 0
Dickinson     8 2 0
Syracuse     8 2 1
Wesleyan     7 3 0
Western Penn.     5 2 1
Brown     6 4 0
Carlisle     6 4 0
Penn State     6 4 0
Pittsburgh College     6 4 1
Army     3 2 1
Vermont     3 2 1
Holy Cross     5 4 1
Bucknell     4 4 3
Fordham     1 1 2
Frankin & Marshall     4 4 2
New Hampshire     4 4 0
Amherst     4 5 1
Villanova     2 4 1
Lehigh     3 6 1
Boston College     2 5 1
Colgate     2 5 1
Temple     2 5 0
Lafayette     3 8 0
NYU     1 3 0
Rutgers     1 6 1
Tufts     1 9 0
Geneva     0 6 1

The 1898 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1898 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 9–2 record, under second-year head coach Frank Butterworth. The team recorded seven shutouts and won its first nine games by a combined 146 to 11 score. It then lost its final two games against rivals Princeton (6–0) and Harvard (17–0).[1]

Three Yale players, halfback Malcolm McBride and guards Burr Chamberlain and Gordon Brown, were consensus picks for the 1898 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 243:30 p.m.at Trinity (CT)
W 18–0 [3][4]
October 1 Wesleyan
W 5–0 [5]
October 5 Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–0 [6]
October 8 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0 [7]
October 15at Newton Athletic Association Newton, MAW 6–0 [8]
October 19 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–6 [9]
October 22 Carlisle
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–52,500[10][11]
October 29at ArmyW 10–05,000[12]
November 5 Chicago Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 10–0 [13]
November 12at Princeton
L 0–616,500[14]
November 19 Harvard
L 0–1717,500[15][16]

References

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  1. ^ "1898 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. ^ "Yale-Trinity Football Game". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. September 24, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Yale's First Game: The New Have Collegians Defeat Trinity 18 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). September 25, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Yale's Small Score". The Times (Philadelphia). October 2, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale Plays Fiercely: Puts Up a Game That Greatly Pleases Her Supporters". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 6, 1898. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale Makes Twenty-Three: And Is Nearly Scored on in the Last Half by Williams". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 9, 1898. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Narrow Escape: Yale Defeated the Newton A.A. Team, But It Was by a Narrow Margin". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 16, 1898. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Brown Scores on Yale". Chicago Tribune. October 20, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Indians Score At Yale: Hudson Drops a Wonderful Goal From The 45-Yard Line". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1898. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Yale, 18; Carlisle Indians, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 23, 1898. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Fall In Brilliant Defeat: West Point Beaten By Yale After a Game Struggle". Chicago Tribune. October 30, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Yale, 10; Chicago A.A., 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 6, 1898. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Princeton Is Victorious". The New York Times. November 13, 1898. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Harvard Supreme: Yale Lowers Her Colors to the Invincible Crimson Eleven". The Boston Globe. November 20, 1898. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Harvard Is The Victor". The New York Times. November 20, 1898. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.