1916 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1916 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1916 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Tad Jones. The team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 182 to 44 and suffered its only loss to Brown.[1] Yale guard Clinton Black was a consensus pick for the 1916 College Football All-America Team, and four other Yale players (ends Charles Comerford and George Moseley, halfback Harry LeGore, and a guard with the surname Fox) also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector in 1916.

1916 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1916 record8–1
Head coachTad Jones (1st season)
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Army      9 0 0
Pittsburgh      8 0 0
Brown      8 1 0
Colgate      8 1 0
Yale      8 1 0
Fordham      6 1 1
Penn State      8 2 0
Wash. & Jeff.      8 2 0
Boston College      6 2 0
Cornell      6 2 0
Princeton      6 2 0
Lehigh      6 2 1
Dartmouth      5 2 2
Harvard      7 3 0
Penn      7 3 1
Temple      3 1 2
Tufts      5 3 0
Carnegie Tech      4 3 0
Rutgers      3 2 2
NYU      4 3 1
Syracuse      5 4 0
Rhode Island State      3 4 1
Geneva      2 5 2
Carlisle      1 3 1
Lafayette      2 6 1
Columbia      1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall      1 7 0
Villanova      1 8 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30 Carnegie TechW 25–0
October 7 Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 61–3
October 14 Lehigh
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–0
October 20 VPI
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
October 28 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–14
November 4 Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–3
November 11 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–21
November 18at Princeton W 10–0
November 25 Harvard
W 6–3

References

  1. "1916 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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