1883 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1883 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1883 college football season. The team compiled a 9–0 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 540 to 2.[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[2]

1883 Yale Bulldogs football
Consensus national champion
Conference	Independent
1883 record	9–0
Head coach	None
Captain	Ray Tompkins
Home stadium	Hamilton Park

1883 college football records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	0
Gallaudet			–					2	–	0	–	0
Carleton			–					1	–	0	–	0
Johns Hopkins			–					1	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					8	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	2	–	1
Stevens			–					6	–	4	–	1
Massachusetts			–					1	–	1	–	0
Minnesota			–					1	–	1	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	3	–	0
Williams			–					1	–	1	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	5	–	0
Michigan			–					2	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	4	–	0
Johns Hopkins			–					1	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	0
Amherst			–					0	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					0	–	1	–	0
Hamline			–					0	–	1	–	0
Lewisburg			–					0	–	1	–	0
Navy			–					0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	2	–	0
Georgetown			–					0	–	2	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	Wesleyan	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 58–0
September 29	at Wesleyan	Middletown, CT	W 90–0
October 6	Stevens	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 59–0		[3]
November 6	vs. Rutgers	Washington Park Brooklyn, NY	W 92–0	nearly 1,000	[4]
November 14	Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute	Brooklyn, NY	W 49–0
November 17	vs. Columbia	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 93–0	400–500	[5]
November 21	Michigan	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 64–0	400
November 24	vs. Princeton	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	W 6–0	5,000–6,000	[6]
November 29	vs. Harvard	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	W 23–2	nearly 10,000	[7]

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Roster

• Rushers: Samuel Reading Bertron (4), Howard H. Knapp, F. G. Peters (4), Ray Tompkins, A. L. Farwell (4), Williams (4), Louis K. Hull, W. P. McCrorey
• Quarterback: Henry Twombly (4)
• Halfbacks: Wyllys Terry, Eugene Lamb Richards
• Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon

References

1. "1883 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. "Yale vs. Stevens Institute". The Harvard Crimson. October 12, 1883.
4. "Yale Easily Defeats Rutgers". New York Tribune. November 7, 1883. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Two Games of Football". The Sun. November 18, 1883. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale Beats Princeton". The Sun. November 25, 1883. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Yale Again Victorious". New York Tribune. November 30, 1883. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.