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1886 Yale Bulldogs football

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

ConferenceIntercollegiate Football Association
Record9–0–1 ( IFA)
Head coach
  • None
CaptainRobert Corwin
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1885
1887 →
1886 Eastern college football independents records
  • t
  • e
  • Conf Overall
    Team W   L   T W   L   T
    Yale     9 0 1
    Princeton     7 0 1
    Harvard     12 2 0
    Lafayette     10 2 0
    Williams     5 1 1
    Massachusetts     2 1 0
    Penn     9 7 1
    Lehigh     4 3 1
    Dartmouth     2 2 0
    Amherst     3 4 0
    Rutgers     1 3 0
    Wesleyan     2 6 0
    MIT     2 6 1
    Vermont     0 1 0
    Stevens     0 7 1
    Tufts     0 8 0
    NYU     0 3 0
    Swarthmore        
    Trinity (CT)        

    The 1886 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as a member of the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) during the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 687 to 4.[1] Robert Corwin was the team captain.

    There was no contemporaneous system in 1887 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2]

    On Thanksgiving Day in Princeton, New Jersey, undefeated teams from Yale and Princeton met. The game started late due to the absence of a referee, and heavy rain caused the game to be called on account of darkness with Yale leading 4–0 in the second half. Under the rules of the time, the game was declared "no contest" by the substitute referee, and the final score was declared to be 0–0. After a special meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association held to review the game, the Association issued a two-part resolution: that (1) Yale should have been acknowledged the winner, but that (2) under their existing rules, the Association did not have the authority to award the game to them.[3]

    Schedule[edit]

    DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
    October 6Wesleyan
  • New Haven, CT
  • W 75–0
    October 9at WesleyanMiddletown, CTW 62–0
    October 16MIT
    • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
  • W 96–0
    October 20atStevensHoboken, NJW 54–0[4]
    October 23atWilliamsWilliamstown, MAW 76–0
    October 30Wesleyan
    • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
  • W 136–0[5][6]
    November 2atCrescent Athletic Club
  • New York, NY
  • W 82–0[7]
    November 13Penn
    • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
  • W 75–0[8]
    November 202:30 p.m.atHarvard
  • Cambridge, MA (rivalry)
  • W 29–4> 6,000[9][10]
    November 253:30 p.m.atPrincetonPrinceton, NJ (rivalry)T 0–0> 6,000[11]

    [1]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b "1886 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  • ^ 1886 Yale University football scores and results Archived July 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 16, 2014.
  • ^ "No Football Champions.; But Princeton Challenges Yale To Another Game On Saturday". The New York Times. November 28, 1886.
  • ^ "Yale 54—Stevens 0". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 21, 1886. p. 3. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  • ^ "Beating the Record: Yale's Giants Score 136 Points Against the Wesleyan". The Boston Globe. October 31, 1886. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Yale Wins the First Game: She Easily Defeats the Wesleyan Football Team". The New York Times. October 31, 1886. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Brooklyn Against Yale: The College Boys Prove Themselves Superior at Football". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 3, 1886. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Yale Defeats Pennsylvania". The New York Times. November 14, 1886. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Again Yale Wins: Harvard's Eleven Out-played by the Veterans". The Boston Globe. November 21, 1886. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Harvard Beaten By Yale". The New York Times. November 21, 1886. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Yale Outplays Princeton: Weather Bad and Tempers Worse Make Trouble". The New York Times. November 26, 1886. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.

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