1920 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1920 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1920 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 5–3 record under third-year head coach Tad Jones.[1] Yale guard Tim Callahan was a consensus selection for the 1920 College Football All-America Team,[2] receiving first team honors from Walter Camp,[3] the United Press,[4] and the International News Service.[5] Yale's other guard, John Acosta, also received first-team All-America honors from Walter Eckersall.[6]

1920 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1920 record5–3
Head coachTad Jones (3rd season)
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1920 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Boston College      8 0 0
Harvard      8 0 1
Princeton      6 0 1
Penn State      7 0 2
Pittsburgh      6 0 2
Army      7 2 0
Dartmouth      7 2 0
Cornell      6 2 0
Syracuse      6 2 1
Geneva      5 2 1
New Hampshire      5 2 1
Brown      6 3 0
Wash. & Jeff.      6 3 1
Penn      6 4 0
Carnegie Tech      5 3 0
Lafayette      5 3 0
Williams      5 3 0
Yale      5 3 0
Fordham      4 3 0
Franklin & Marshall      3 2 2
Columbia      4 4 0
Duquesne      3 3 1
NYU      2 5 1
Rhode Island State      0 4 4
Tufts      2 6 0
Rutgers      2 7 0
Colgate      1 5 2
Villanova      1 5 1
Drexel      0 6 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2 Carnegie TechW 44–0
October 9 North Carolina
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–0
October 16 Boston College
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 13–21
October 23 West Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 24–0 [7]
October 30 Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–7
November 6 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–10
November 13at Princeton L 0–2050,000[8]
November 20 Harvard
L 0–9close to 80,000[9]

References

  1. "1920 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived 2009-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Camp Names Gridiron Stars". Post-Standard. Syracuse, NY. 1920-12-15.
  4. Henry L. Farrell (1920-12-10). "Brilliant Backs Are Features of 1920 Eleven: United Press Scribe Picks An All-American Eleven Himself". Middletown Daily Herald.
  5. Jacob Velock (1920-12-07). "Hard Task To Pick All-American Team From This Season's Galaxy of Stars". Trenton Evening Times.
  6. "Weston on Second All-American Team". Janesville Daily Gazette. 1920-12-13.
  7. "Mountaineers Beaten By Yale By Surprisingly Large Margin". The Pittsburg Press. October 24, 1920. p. Sporting 3 via Newspapers.com.
  8. Grantland Rice (November 14, 1920). "Princeton Blanks Yale 20 to 0; Worst Beating Ever Inflicted on Bulldog by Tiger". New York Tribune. p. 21 via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Crimson Defeats Yale By Score of 9-0: Crimson Machine Held By Savage Defense of Yale". The Hartford Courant. November 21, 1920. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
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