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1891 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1891 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 13–0 record and a 488–0 season score. It was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2] Yale's 1891 season was part of a 37-game winning streak that began with the final game of the 1890 season and stopped at the end of the 1893 season.

1891 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
IFA champion
ConferenceIntercollegiate Football Association
Record13–0 ( IFA)
Head coach
CaptainLee McClung
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1890
1892 →
1891 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale – 13–0–0
Harvard – 13–1–0
Princeton – 12–1–0
Tufts – 7–1–0
Penn – 11–2–0
Colgate – 4–1–0
Army – 4–1–1
Bucknell – 6–2–1
Navy – 5–2–0
Cornell – 7–3–0
Geneva – 4–2–0
Washington & Jefferson – 4–2–0
Lehigh – 7–4–0
Rutgers – 8–6–0
Brown – 4–6–0
Springfield YMCA – 5–8–1
Fordham – 1–2–1
Syracuse – 4–7–0
Massachusetts – 2–5–0
Western Univ. Penn. – 2–6–0
Lafayette – 2–9–1
NYU – 1–4–0
Columbia – 1–5–0
Wesleyan – 1–6–0

Five Yale players were selected by Caspar Whitney to the 1891 All-America college football team: halfback and team captain Lee McClung; ends Frank Hinkey and John A. Hartwell; tackle Wallace Winter; and guard Pudge Heffelfinger.[3] Camp also selected the following Yale players to his second team: quarterback Frank Barbour; halfback Laurie Bliss; guard Samuel Morison; and center George Sanford.[4]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30Wesleyan
W 28–0
October 3at Crescent Athletic Club
W 26–03,000[5]
October 7at Trinity (CT)Hartford, CTW 36–0
October 10vs. Williams
W 46–02,000–2,500[6][7]
October 14Springfield YMCA
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–0500[8]
October 243:30 p.m.at Orange Athletic Club
W 36–02,700[9][10]
October 31Lehigh
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 38–0
November 3Crescent Athletic Club
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 70–05,600[11]
November 7Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 76–0
November 112:30 p.m.Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–0350[12]
November 14vs. Penn
W 48–0
November 21vs. Harvard
W 10–020,000–25,000[13]
November 26vs. Princeton
W 19–040,000[14][15][16]

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Roster

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Game summaries

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YMCA Training School

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On October 14, 1891, Yale defeated the team from the YMCA Training School by a score of 28–0 before a crowd of 500 persons at Yale Field in New Haven, Connecticut. Yale alumnus Amos Alonzo Stagg was the coach of the YMCA team and also played at the halfback position. Pudge Heffelfinger scored three touchdowns, and Lee McClung kicked three goals after touchdown. Halfback and team captain Lee McClung suffered a broken thumb in the game.[8]

References

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  1. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "1891 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ "2009 Yale Football Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. p. 77.
  5. ↑ "Yale Defeats Crescents". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 4, 1891. p. 7. Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ↑ "On The Foot-ball Field.—The Yale-Williams Contest—Berkshire's Eleven Defeated 46 to 0 in an Exciting Game". The Springfield Sunday Republican. Springfield, Massachusetts. October 11, 1891. p. 8. Retrieved June 23, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ↑ "Yale Superior To Williams". The New-York Times. New York, New York. October 11, 1891. p. 2. Retrieved June 23, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. 1 2 "Yale Given A Hard Tussle: Capt. McClung Badly Injured in Game With Stagg's Eleven". The Boston Daily Globe. October 15, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "In The Football Field". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 25, 1891. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ↑ "Yale Collegians Score 46 Points and Fail at Kicking Goals". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. October 25, 1891. p. 16. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ↑ "Lively Kickers: How the Amateur Athletes Observed Election". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 4, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Yale Men Knocked Out". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1891. p. 3. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ↑ "Yale 10, Harvard 0: And The Great Match Is Over". The Evening World. November 21, 1891. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Blue Triumphs Again.—The Score Ten to Nothing". The Springfield Sunday Republican. Springfield, Massachusetts. November 22, 1891. pp. 1–2. Retrieved June 23, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ↑ "Goal Of Glory.—Yale's Colors Through Harvard Line". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 22, 1891. pp. 1, 4, 6. Retrieved June 23, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  16. ↑ "Yale 10, Harvard 0: And The Great Match Is Over". The Evening World. November 21, 1891. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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