1878 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1878 Yale Bulldogs football

Conference| Independent
Record| 4–1–1
Head coach|

* None

Captain| Walter Camp
Home stadium| Hamilton Park

Seasons

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1878 college football records

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Princeton |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 0  | - | 0
Yale |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 1  | - | 1
Columbia |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 0  | - | 1
CCNY |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 1  | - | 0
Stevens |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 1  | - | 2
Harvard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 2  | - | 0
Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 2  | - | 1
Rutgers |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 2  | - | 1
Amherst |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 3  | - | 0
Brown |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Swarthmore |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0

The 1878 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1878 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 4–1–1 record. The team recorded five shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 7 to 1.[1][2]

## Schedule

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November 2| | Amherst|

* Hamilton Park
* New Haven, CT

| W 2–0| | [3]
November 9| | Trinity (CT)|

* Hamilton Park
* New Haven, CT

| W 2–0| | [4][5]
November 13| | at Trinity (CT)|

* Hartford Ball Club Grounds
* Hartford, CT

| W 3–0| | [6]
November 16| | at Amherst|

* Blake Field
* Amherst, MA

| T 0–0| | [7]
November 23| | at Harvard|

* Boston Baseball Grounds
* Boston, MA (rivalry)

| W 1–0| 700| [8][9]
November 28| 2:25 p.m.| vs. Princeton|

* St. George's Cricket Club grounds
* Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)

| L 0–1| | [10]

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## References

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1. ^ "1878 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. ^ a b "2015 Yale Football" (PDF). yalebulldogs.com. Yale Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
3. ^ "Football—College Championship Game Between Yale And Trinity". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 10, 1878. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
4. ^ "Football—Game Between The Amhersts And The Yales—Yale The Victor". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 3, 1878. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
5. ^ "1878 Trinity vs. Yale Football Program". Football of Yore. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
6. ^ "College Sports—The Yale-Trinity Foot-Ball Game". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 14, 1878. p. 2. Retrieved March 27, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
7. ^ "Amherst And Yale—The Second Match Between These Players A Draw". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 17, 1878. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
8. ^ "Football—Yale And Harvard Teams—Play For The College Championship—An Exciting Game—Yale The Winner". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 24, 1878. p. 10. Retrieved March 27, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
9. ^ "A Match of Ball Between the Colleges". The Daily Constitution. Atlanta, Georgia. November 24, 1878. p. 1. Retrieved March 27, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
10. ^ "Princeton Defeats Yale". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 29, 1878. p. 8. Retrieved March 27, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .

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Yale Bulldogs football

Venues|

* Hamilton Park (1872–1883)
* Yale Field (1884–1914, 1916)
* Yale Bowl (1914–present)

Bowls & rivalries|

* Harvard
* Princeton

Culture & lore|

* 1910 Vanderbilt game
* 1927 Georgia game
* 1968 Harvard game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29)
* 2004 Harvard–Yale prank
* Handsome Dan
* "Boola Boola"
* Pigskin Parade
* Huddle

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* Head coaches
* NFL draftees

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