American college football season
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]
Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance Source November 1 vs. Penn W 3–0[ 3]
November 8 Harvard T 0–01,500–2,000 [ 4]
November 15 Rutgers Hamilton Park New Haven, CT W 5–0300 [ 5]
November 22 3:00 p.m. vs. Columbia St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ W 2–0[ 6]
November 27 2:40 p.m. vs. Princeton St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ (rivalry ) T 0–06,000–7,000 [ 7] [ 8]
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Forwards: Franklin M. Eaton, John S. Harding, Louis K. Hull , Benjamin B. Lamb, Howard H. Knapp, John Moorhead Jr., Frederic Remington , Charles S. Beck
Halfbacks: Walter Irving Badger , Walter Camp , George H. Clark, William A. Peters, Robert W. Watson
Backs: William K. Nixon, Chester W. Lyman
Others: Benjamin Wisner Bacon , John S. Durand, John F. Merrill, Charles B. Storrs, Frederick R. Vernon
Manager: Eugene W. Walker
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^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF) . NCAA Division I Football Records . NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016 .
^ a b "1879 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
^ "College Foot Ball" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . November 3, 1879. p. 2. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Football: Annual Match Between the Teams of Yale and Harvard" . New York Daily Herald . November 9, 1879. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Match Between The College Teams Of Rutgers, Of New York, and Yale, Of New Haven" . New York Herald . New York, New York . November 16, 1879. p. 12. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Desperate Struggle Between Yale and Columbia At Hoboken—The New Haven Boys Victorious" . New York Herald . New York, New York . November 23, 1879. p. 13. Retrieved April 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Kicking The Leather Egg" . The New York Times . New York, New York . November 28, 1879. p. 8. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Foot-ball.–A Hotly-Contested Game Between Yale and Princeton Ends in a Draw" . The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Massachusetts . November 28, 1879. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888 . Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 81.
^ Tim Cohane (1951). The Yale Football Story . Putnam. p. 343.
^ "Yale Football 2009 Media Guide" . Yale University. 2009. pp. 113–125.
Venues Bowls & rivalries Culture & lore People Seasons National championship seasons in bold
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