1902 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–0–1
Head coach
CaptainGeorge B. Chadwick
Home stadiumYale Field
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1902 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Ursinus   –   9 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   11 – 0 – 1
Geneva   –   7 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   11 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 1 – 0
Army   –   6 – 1 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   7 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 2 – 1
Holy Cross   –   6 – 2 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 1
Carlisle   –   8 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 4 – 0
Lehigh   –   7 – 3 – 1
Vermont   –   5 – 3 – 2
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 1
NYU   –   5 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   6 – 4 – 1
Springfield Training School   –   3 – 2 – 1
Villanova   –   4 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 6 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   5 – 6 – 1
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 5 – 1
Tufts   –   4 – 6 – 1
Fordham   –   2 – 4 – 1
Wesleyan   –   3 – 6 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 7 – 0
Navy   –   2 – 7 – 1
Drexel   –   1 – 4 – 1
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
Pittsburgh College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Boston College   –   0 – 8 – 0

The 1902 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0–1 record, shut out eight of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 286 to 22.[1] Joseph R. Swan was the head coach, and George B. Chadwick was the team captain.

Yale was selected as the 1902 champion in the 1903 edition of the World Almanac.[2]

In the absence of any recognized Intercollegiate Football Association the championship cannot always be unerringly fixed; but in 1902 there is no difficulty in allotting the honor to Yale, inasmuch as she won every one of her games.

— The World Almanac and Encyclopedia (1903)

In 1933 Yale was retroactively named as the national co-champion, along with Michigan, by NCAA-designated "major selector" Parke H. Davis.[3]

Seven Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1902 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Foster Rockwell; halfback George B. Chadwick; end Tom Shevlin; center Henry Holt; guard Edward Glass; and tackles Ralph Kinney and James Hogan.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Trinity (CT)
W 40–0[5]
October 1Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–6[6]
October 4Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0[7]
October 8Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 35–0[8]
October 11at Brown
W 10–0[9]
October 15Vermont
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 32–0[10]
October 18Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–0[11]
October 25Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 24–0[12]
November 1at Army
T 6–6[13]
November 8Bucknell
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–56,000[14]
November 15at Princeton
W 12–520,000[15]
November 22Harvard
W 23–030,000[16]

[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "1902 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Football. Intercollegiate Games of 1914.". The World Almanac and Encyclopedia (1903). 1903. pp. 261–262. In the absence of any recognized Intercollegiate Football Association the championship cannot always be unerringly fixed; but in 1902 there is no difficulty in allotting the honor to Yale, inasmuch as she won every one of her games.
  3. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  4. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  5. ^ "Yale Easily Beats Trinity". New York Tribune. September 28, 1902. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale, 34; Tufts, 6". New York Tribune. October 2, 1902. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale, 23; Amherst, 0". The New York Times. October 5, 1902. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale, 35; Wesleyan, 0". The New York Times. October 9, 1902. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale, 10; Brown, 0". The New York Times. October 12, 1902. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Yale easily defeats Vermont in a well played game". New York Tribune. October 16, 1903. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Yale, 11; Penn. State, 0". The New York Times. October 19, 1932. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Yale, 24; Syracuse, 0". The New York Times. October 26, 1902. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Yale and West Point Tie: Six to Six Is the Score After Hard Battle -- Weight of New-Haven Team Balked By Soldiers' Line". New York Tribune. November 2, 1902. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Rough Work at Yale Field: Bucknell Men Scored By Referee -- The Blue Eleven Won by 34 to 5". New York Tribune. November 9, 1902. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Yale Football Team Defeats Princeton: New Haven Eleven Wins After a Fiercely Fought Game". The New York Times. November 16, 1902. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Yale 23, Harvard 0: Crimson Outclassed at Every Stage; 30,000 Saw Game". Boston Post. November 23, 1902. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
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