1893 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1
Head coach
CaptainFrank Hinkey
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1892
1894 →
1893 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4Brown
W 18–0[3]
October 7at Crescent Athletic Club
W 16–02,000[4]
October 14Dartmouth
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–0800–1,200[5][6]
October 18Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0
October 21at Orange Athletic Club
W 50–02,000[7]
October 25Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 82–0
October 28at Army
W 28–0
November 7at New York Athletic Club
W 42–0
November 11vs. Penn
  • Polo Grounds
  • New York, NY
W 14–6
November 25vs. Harvard
W 6–0
November 30vs. Princeton
L 0–6

[2]

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. ^ 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 Open access icon.
  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 Open access icon.
  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 Open access icon.
  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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