1903 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1903 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach George B. Chadwick. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 206 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Princeton.[1]

1903 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
1903 record	11–1
Head coach	George B. Chadwick (1st season)
Home stadium	Yale Field

1903 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					9	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					9	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					9	–	1	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	1	–	0
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					9	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					9	–	3	–	0
Army			–					6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					6	–	2	–	1
Amherst			–					7	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					5	–	5	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	8	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	5	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	5	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	6	–	1
Western U. Penn.			–					1	–	8	–	1

Four Yale players (fullback Ledyard Mitchell, end Charles D. Rafferty, tackle James Hogan and guard James Bloomer) were consensus picks for the 1903 College Football All-America Team.[2] Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick,[3] and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the San Antonio Daily Light.[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 26	Trinity (CT)	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 35–0
September 30	Tufts	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 19–0
October 3	Vermont	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 46–0
October 7	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 33–0
October 10	Springfield YMCA	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–0
October 14	Holy Cross	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 36–10
October 17	Penn State	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 27–0
October 24	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 17–5
October 31	Columbia	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 25–0
November 7	Syracuse	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 30–0
November 14	Princeton	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 6–11
November 21	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 16–0

References

1. "1903 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
3. "Crack Football Eleven". Los Angeles Times. 1903-11-30.
4. "The Ideal All-American Team". San Antonio Daily Light. 1903-12-14.