1879 Yale Bulldogs football team

1879 Yale Bulldogs football
Yale Bulldogs, co-national champions
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–0–2
Head coach
  • None
CaptainWalter Camp
Home stadiumHamilton Park
Seasons
← 1878
1880 →
1879 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     4 0 1
Yale     3 0 2
Massachusetts     1 0 0
Michigan     1 0 1
Haverford     1 0 1
Harvard     2 1 2
Penn     2 2 0
Amherst     1 1 0
Navy     0 0 1
McGill     0 0 1
Toronto     0 0 1
Stevens     1 2 5
Rutgers     1 2 3
Pennsylvania Military     0 1 1
NYU     0 2 1
Racine     0 1 0
Swarthmore     0 1 0
Columbia     0 3 2

The 1879 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1879 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0–2 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ "1879 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.

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