1889 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record15–1
Head coach
CaptainCharles O. Gill
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
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1889 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   10 – 0 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   15 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   9 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 1 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 1 – 1
Navy   –   4 – 1 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 1 – 0
Lehigh   –   8 – 3 – 2
Cornell   –   8 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 6 – 0
Brown   –   2 – 2 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 0
Delaware   –   1 – 1 – 1
Wesleyan   –   5 – 7 – 1
Bucknell   –   2 – 3 – 1
Lafayette   –   3 – 4 – 2
Columbia   –   2 – 7 – 2
Fordham   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1889 college football season. In their second season under head coach Walter Camp, Yale compiled a 15–1 record, held opponents scoreless in 12 games, and outscored all opponents by a total of 664 to 31. Its only loss was in the final game of the season against rival Princeton by a 10–0 score.[1]

Three Yale players (end Amos Alonzo Stagg, guard Pudge Heffelfinger and tackle Charles O. Gill) were named to the 1889 College Football All-America Team, the first college football All-America team as selected by Caspar Whitney.[2] Stagg and Heffelfinger have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 283:00 p.m. Wesleyan
W 38–0 [3][4]
October 9at Wesleyan Middletown, CTW 63–5 [5]
October 12 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–0 [6]
October 16 Cornell
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 56–6 [7]
October 19 Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 42–0 [8]
October 24at Trinity (CT) Hartford, CTW 64–0 [9]
October 26at Columbia
W 62–0 [10]
October 30at Penn Philadelphia, PAW 22–10 [11]
October 31vs. Stevens
  • Berkeley Oval
  • New York, NY
W 30–0 [12]
November 5at Crescent Athletic Club
W 18–04,000[13]
November 9at Cornell Ithaca, NYW 70–02,000[14]
November 12at Amherst Amherst, MAW 32–0 [15]
November 13at Williams
W 70–0 [16]
November 16vs. Wesleyan
W 52–0 [17][18]
November 232:00 p.m.vs. Harvard
  • Hampden Park
  • Springfield, MA (rivalry)
W 6–015,000[19][20]
November 28vs. Princeton
L 0–10>25,000[21]

References

  1. ^ "1889 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  2. ^ The All-America Team for 1889 selected by Casper Whitney is identified in the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived 2009-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Yale University News". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. September 28, 1889. p. 6. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Yale's Easy Victory". The Meriden Sunday Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. September 29, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Wesleyan Scored". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 10, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "No Science In The Play: Yale Defeats Williams in a Very Rough Game of Football". The New York Times. October 13, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale Wins at Football: Cornell Defeated by a Score of 56 to 6". The New York Times. October 17, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale Defeats Amherst". The New York Times. October 28, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale 64, Trinity 0: The Blues Easily Win at Hartford -- Casualties and Score". Burlington Daily Free Press. October 25, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Yale Beats Columbia, and Princeton Wins, Too". The New York Times. October 27, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Yale Takes The Game". The Times (Philadelphia). October 31, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Yale's New Football Men: Corbin, Terry and Beecher Play Against Stevens". The New York Times. November 1, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Yale Muscle Wins Again". The Sun (New York). November 6, 1889. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Cornell Defeated By Yale". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. November 10, 1889. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Yale Plays The Return Game With Amherst And Wins". The New York Times. November 13, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "More Like Old Times". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 14, 1889. p. 5. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  17. ^ "Yale, 52; Wesleyan, 0". The New York Times. November 17, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Yale, 52; Wesleyan, 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  19. ^ "Yale Wins From Harvard". The New York Times. November 24, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Leather Chasing". Brooklyn Citizen. Brooklyn, New York. November 24, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  21. ^ "Princeton Wins Gloriously". The Sun (New York). November 29, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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