1900 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–0
Head coach
CaptainGordon Brown
Home stadiumYale Field
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   12 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   10 – 2 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 1 – 1
Lafayette   –   9 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   7 – 2 – 1
Princeton   –   8 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   5 – 2 – 0
Fordham   –   3 – 1 – 1
Army   –   7 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   7 – 3 – 1
Villanova   –   5 – 2 – 2
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 3 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 3 – 2
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 1
Carlisle   –   6 – 4 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 2 – 2
Dickinson   –   5 – 4 – 0
Western Univ. of Penn   –   5 – 4 – 0
Bucknell   –   4 – 4 – 1
Pittsburgh College   –   3 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –   4 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 4 – 1
Lehigh   –   5 – 6 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 5 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 4 – 1
Penn State   –   4 – 6 – 1
Amherst   –   4 – 7 – 1
Dartmouth   –   2 – 4 – 2
NYU   –   3 – 6 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 6 – 1
Wesleyan   –   3 – 6 – 1
New Hampshire   –   1 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   2 – 8 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 1 – 0

The 1900 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. The team finished with a 12–0 record, shut out ten of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 336 to 10.[1] Malcolm McBride was the head coach, and Gordon Brown was the team captain.

Yale is the only team retroactively named as the national champion for 1900 by NCAA-designated "major selectors". Those include the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[2]

Seven Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1900 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback William Fincke; halfback George B. Chadwick; fullback Perry Hale; center Herman Olcott; guard Gordon Brown; and tackles George S. Stillman and James Bloomer.[3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Trinity (CT)
W 22–0[4]
October 3Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–01,500[5]
October 6Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 30–02,300[6]
October 10Bates
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 50–0[7]
October 133:15 p.m.vs. Dartmouth
W 17–0[8]
October 17Bowdoin
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 30–0[9]
October 20Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 38–04,000[10]
October 27at Columbia
W 12–58,000[11][12]
November 3at Army
W 18–0[13]
November 10Carlisle
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 35–0[14]
November 172:45 p.m.at Princeton
W 29–5[15][16][17]
November 24Harvard
W 28–020,000[18][19]

References

  1. ^ "1900 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "Yale Played a Good Game: Trinity Defeated 23 to 0 -- The Blue Almost Scored On". The Philadelphia Times. September 30, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Yale Beats Amherst 27 to 0". The Hartford Courant. October 4, 1900. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale 30, Tufts 0". The Boston Globe. October 7, 1900. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale Wins From Bates". New Haven Morning Journal and Courier. October 11, 1900. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale 17; Dartmouth 0". New York Tribune. October 14, 1900. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale Runs Up Big Score". The Boston Globe. October 18, 1900. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Shock For Yale: Wesleyan Boys Got to Her 15-Yard Line". The Boston Globe. October 21, 1900. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Columbia's Mighty Stand". New York Tribune. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Columbia's Game Fight". The Sun. October 28, 1900 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Yale in the Dumps: Slump Has Overwhelmed the Eleven of Giants". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1900. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Great Is Eli: Yale Piles Up 35 Points Against Carlisle". The Boston Globe. November 11, 1900. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Yale Scores 29, Princeton 5". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 1900. pp. 1, 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Yale Buries Princeton: Sons of Eli Score 29 to 5 by the Tigers". The New York Times. November 18, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Eli Crushes the Tigers in a One-Sided Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 18, 1900. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Yale 28, Harvard 0: Blues Outclass Crimsons in All Departments of Football". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1900. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Yale Football Champions of 1900: Harvard Beaten in the Annual Game at New Haven". The New York Times. November 25, 1900. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
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