1893 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1893 Yale Bulldogs football

National champion (Davis)

Conference| Independent
Record| 10–1
Head coach|

* William Rhodes (1st season)

Captain| Frank Hinkey
Home stadium| Yale Field

Seasons

<- 1892

1894 ->

1893 Eastern college football independents records

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Princeton |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 11  | - | 0  | - | 0
Fordham |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 0  | - | 0
Harvard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 12  | - | 1  | - | 0
Yale |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 10  | - | 1  | - | 0
Colgate |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 0  | - | 2
Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 12  | - | 3  | - | 0
Penn State |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 1  | - | 0
Wesleyan |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 1  | - | 0
Holy Ghost |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 2  | - | 0
Swarthmore |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 2  | - | 1
Lehigh |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 3  | - | 0
Brown |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 3  | - | 0
Carlisle |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 0
Delaware |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 0
Frankin & Marshall |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 2  | - | 1
Navy |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 3  | - | 0
Washington & Jefferson |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 3  | - | 0
Drexel |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 2  | - | 0
Bucknell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 3  | - | 0
Amherst |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 6  | - | 1
Boston College |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 0
Geneva |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 2  | - | 1
Army |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 5  | - | 0
Williams |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 3  | - | 1
Tufts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 7  | - | 0
Cornell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 6  | - | 1
Worcester Tech |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 4  | - | 1
Boston University |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 2  | - | 0
Lafayette |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 6  | - | 0
Syracuse |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 9  | - | 1
Western Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 4  | - | 0
MIT |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 5  | - | 0
Massachusetts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 9  | - | 0
New Hampshire |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 1  | - | 0
Rutgers |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 4  | - | 0
Maine |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 0  | - | 5  | - | 0

The 1893 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1893 college football season. The team finished with a 10–1 record and, despite losing to Princeton, was retroactively named as the national champion by one selector, Parke H. Davis.[1][2] Yale's 1893 season was part of a 37-game winning streak that began with the final game of the 1890 season and stopped at the end of the 1893 season.

## Schedule[edit]

Date| Opponent| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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October 4| Brown|

* Yale Field
* New Haven, CT

| W 18–0| | [3]
October 7| at Crescent Athletic Club|

* Eastern Park
* Brooklyn, NY

| W 16–0| 2,000| [4]
October 14| Dartmouth|

* Yale Field
* New Haven, CT

| W 28–0| 800–1,200| [5][6]
October 18| Amherst|

* Yale Field
* New Haven, CT

| W 46–0| |
October 21| at Orange Athletic Club|

* Orange Oval
* East Orange, NJ

| W 50–0| 2,000| [7]
October 25| Williams|

* Yale Field
* New Haven, CT

| W 82–0| |
October 28| at Army|

* The Plain
* West Point, NY

| W 28–0| |
November 7| at New York Athletic Club|

* Polo Grounds
* New York, NY

| W 42–0| |
November 11| vs. Penn|

* Polo Grounds
* New York, NY

| W 14–6| |
November 25| vs. Harvard|

* Hampden Park
* Springfield, MA (rivalry)

| W 6–0| |
November 30| vs. Princeton|

* Polo Grounds
* New York, NY (rivalry)

| L 0–6| |

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## References[edit]

1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. ^ a b "1893 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. ^ "Opened The Football Season Today". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 5, 1893. p. 2. Retrieved March 8, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
4. ^ "Crescents' Good Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 8, 1893. p. 3 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "Mass Plays On The Tackles". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 15, 1893. p. 4. Retrieved March 21, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
6. ^ "Battered At Yale's Centre". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 15, 1893. p. 3. Retrieved March 21, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
7. ^ "Yale Shows Up Strong: Orange Athletic Club Badly Beaten -- Score, 50 to 0". Boston Sunday Post. October 22, 1893. p. 7 - via Newspapers.com.

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* Hamilton Park (1872–1883)
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* Yale Bowl (1914–present)

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College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)

1869–1879|

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

1880s|

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

1890s|

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

1900s|

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

1910s|

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

1920s|

* 1920: California
* 1921: California / Cornell
* 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton
* 1923: Illinois / Michigan
* 1924: Notre Dame
* 1925: Alabama
* 1926: Alabama / Stanford
* 1927: Illinois / Yale
* 1928: Georgia Tech
* 1929: Notre Dame

1930s|

* 1930: Alabama / Notre Dame
* 1931: USC
* 1932: USC
* 1933: Michigan
* 1934: Minnesota
* 1935: Minnesota

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