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The 1884 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1884 college football season. The team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 495 to 10.[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2]

1884 Yale Bulldogs football

National champion (Helms, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)

ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainEugene Lamb Richards
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1883
1885 →
1884 college football records
  • t
  • e
  • Conf Overall
    Team W   L   T W   L   T
    Princeton     9 0 1
    Yale     8 0 1
    Michigan     2 0 0
    Williams     2 0 0
    Navy     1 0 0
    Wabash     1 0 0
    Penn     5 1 1
    Fordham     5 1 0
    Harvard     7 4 0
    Wesleyan     3 2 0
    Butler     1 1 0
    Columbia     1 1 0
    Rutgers     3 4 0
    Stevens     4 5 0
    Dartmouth     1 2 1
    Tufts     2 4 1
    Massachusetts     1 2 0
    Lafayette     2 5 0
    Johns Hopkins     1 3 0
    Albion     0 1 0
    CCNY     0 1 0
    DePauw     0 1 0
    Olivet     0 2 0
    Amherst     0 3 0
    Lehigh     0 4 0

    Schedule

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    DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
    October 1Wesleyan
  • New Haven, CT
  • W 31–0
    October 11Stevens
    • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
  • W 96–0
    October 183:00 p.m.vs. Wesleyan
    • Ward Street Grounds
  • Hartford, CT
  • W 63–0[3]
    October 22atRutgersNew Brunswick, NJW 76–10[4]
    October 25atDartmouthHanover, NHW 113–0[5]
    November 5Wesleyan
    • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
  • W 46–0
    November 19Yale alumni
    • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
  • W 18–0
    November 22Harvard
    • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT (rivalry)
  • W 52–02,400[6]
    November 27vs. Princeton
  • New York, NY (rivalry)
  • T 0–0over 10,000[7]

    [1]

    Roster

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    References

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    1. ^ a b "1884 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  • ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  • ^ Football ad - Newspapers.com
  • ^ "College Foot Ball Contests". Evening Star. October 23, 1884. p. 3.
  • ^ "Saturday's Foot Ball Games". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 27, 1884. p. 1. Retrieved March 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
  • ^ "The Harvards Badly Beaten: The Yale Football Team Whip Them by a Score of 52 to 0". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Hard Work and No Glory: The Princeton-Yale Football Game Declared Drawn". The New York Times. November 28, 1884. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.

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