1879 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1879 Yale Bulldogs football

Yale Bulldogs, co-national champions

Co-national champion (Davis)

Conference| Independent
Record| 3–0–2
Head coach|

* None

Captain| Walter Camp
Home stadium| Hamilton Park

Seasons

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1880 ->

1879 college football records

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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]

## Schedule

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Date| Time| Opponent| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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November 1| | vs. Penn|

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

| W 3–0| | [3]
November 8| | Harvard|

* Hamilton Park
* New Haven, CT (rivalry)

| T 0–0| 1,500–2,000| [4]
November 15| | Rutgers|

* Hamilton Park
* New Haven, CT

| W 5–0| 300| [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 0–0| 6,000–7,000| [7][8]

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## Roster

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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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## References

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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. ^ a b "1879 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. ^ "College Foot Ball". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 3, 1879. p. 2. Retrieved March 29, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
4. ^ "Football: Annual Match Between the Teams of Yale and Harvard". New York Daily Herald. November 9, 1879. p. 8 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "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 .
6. ^ "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 .
7. ^ "Kicking The Leather Egg". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 28, 1879. p. 8. Retrieved March 29, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
8. ^ "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 .
9. ^ Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 81.
10. ^ Tim Cohane (1951). The Yale Football Story. Putnam. p. 343.
11. ^ "Yale Football 2009 Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. pp. 113–125.

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1879 Yale Bulldogs football--national champions

* Benjamin Wisner Bacon
* Walter Irving Badger
* Walter Camp
* Louis K. Hull
* John Moorhead
* Frederic Remington

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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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College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)

1869–1879|

* 1869: Princeton / Rutgers
* 1870: Princeton
* 1871: None
* 1872: Princeton / Yale
* 1873: Princeton
* 1874: Harvard / Princeton / Yale
* 1875: Columbia / Harvard / Princeton
* 1876: Yale
* 1877: Princeton / Yale
* 1878: Princeton
* 1879: Princeton

1880s|

* 1880: Princeton / Yale
* 1881: Princeton / Yale
* 1882: Yale
* 1883: Yale
* 1884: Princeton / Yale
* 1885: Princeton
* 1886: Princeton / Yale
* 1887: Yale
* 1888: Yale
* 1889: Princeton

1890s|

* 1890: Harvard
* 1891: Yale
* 1892: Yale
* 1893: Princeton / Yale
* 1894: Penn / Princeton / Yale
* 1895: Penn / Yale
* 1896: Lafayette / Princeton
* 1897: Penn / Yale
* 1898: Harvard / Princeton
* 1899: Harvard / Princeton

1900s|

* 1900: Yale
* 1901: Harvard / Michigan / Yale
* 1902: Michigan / Yale
* 1903: Michigan / Princeton
* 1904: Michigan / Minnesota / Penn
* 1905: Chicago / Yale
* 1906: Princeton / Yale
* 1907: Yale
* 1908: Harvard / LSU / Penn
* 1909: Yale

1910s|

* 1910: Harvard / Pittsburgh
* 1911: Penn State / Princeton
* 1912: Harvard / Penn State
* 1913: Auburn / Chicago / Harvard
* 1914: Army / Illinois / Texas
* 1915: Cornell / Minnesota / Oklahoma / Pittsburgh
* 1916: Army / Georgia Tech / Pittsburgh
* 1917: Georgia Tech
* 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh
* 1919: Centre / Harvard / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M

1920s|

* 1920: California / Georgia / Harvard / Notre Dame / Princeton
* 1921: California / Cornell / Iowa / Lafayette / Washington & Jefferson / Vanderbilt
* 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton / Vanderbilt
* 1923: California / Cornell / Illinois / Michigan / Yale
* 1924: Notre Dame / Penn
* 1925: Alabama / Dartmouth / Michigan
* 1926: Alabama / Lafayette / Michigan / Navy / Stanford
* 1927: Georgia / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M / Yale
* 1928: Detroit / Georgia Tech / USC
* 1929: Notre Dame / Pittsburgh / USC

1930s|

* 1930: Alabama / Notre Dame
* 1931: Pittsburgh / Purdue / USC
* 1932: Colgate / Michigan / USC
* 1933: Michigan / Ohio State / Princeton / USC
* 1934: Alabama / Minnesota
* 1935: LSU / Minnesota / Princeton / SMU / TCU

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