1881 Yale Bulldogs football team

1881 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
IFA champion
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1881 record 5–0–1 ( )
Head coach No coach
Home stadium Hamilton Park
1881 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale         5 0 1
Princeton         7 0 2
Richmond         2 0 0
Dartmouth         1 0 1
Penn State         1 0 0
Harvard         6 1 1
Massachusetts         2 1 1
Kentucky U.         2 1 0
Columbia         3 3 1
Rutgers         2 4 1
Stevens Tech         1 2 1
Kentucky State         1 2 0
CCNY         0 1 0
Lewisburg         0 1 0
MIT         0 1 0
Wesleyan         0 1 0
RandolphMacon         0 2 0
Amherst         0 3 1
Michigan         0 3 0
Penn         0 5 0

The 1881 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1881 college football season. They finished with a 5–0–1 record and were retroactively named co-national champions by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
October 29 at Amherst* Amherst, MA W 2–0  
November 2 Michigan* Hamilton ParkNew Haven, CT W 2–0  
November 5 Amherst* Hamilton Park • New Haven, CT W 4–0  
November 12 Harvard* Hamilton Park • New Haven, CT (The Game) W 1–0  
November 17 vs. Columbia* New York, NY W 1–0  
November 24 vs. Princeton* New York, NY T 0–0  
*Non-conference game.

References

  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. 1881 Yale University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 9, 2014.
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