1888 Yale Bulldogs football team

1888 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record13–0
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Herbert Corbin
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1887
1889 →
1888 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     13 0 0
Harvard     12 1 0
Princeton     11 1 0
Lehigh     10 2 0
Trinity (CT)     5 1 1
Lafayette     6 3 0
Cornell     4 2 0
Penn     9 7 0
Bucknell     2 3 0
Fordham     1 2 0
Massachusetts     2 4 0
Wesleyan     2 7 0
Worcester Tech     1 4 0
Rutgers     1 6 1
Penn State     0 2 1
Swarthmore     0 5 0

The 1888 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1888 college football season. In its first season under head coach Walter Camp, the team compiled a 13–0 record, did not allow a single point, and outscored opponents by a total of 694 to 0.[1] The team has been retrospectively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[2]

Yale's point total was the largest ever made by a Yale team. The team scored 126 touchdowns and kicked 69 goals from touchdown and eight goals from the field.[3] Ten of the starting 11 players on the 1888 Yale team went on to accept positions coaching other teams.[4] Head coach Walter Camp and five players — Corbin, Pudge Heffelfinger, McClung, Amos Alonzo Stagg, and George Washington Woodruff — were subsequently inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

  1. ^ "1888 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference TDlist was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ L.H. Baker, "Early American College Football Through 1888," in Walter R. Okeson (ed.), The Official NCAA Football Guide 1941. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co. 1941; p. 15.

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