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1894 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1894 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team finished with a 16–0 record, shut out 13 of 16 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 485 to 13.[1] William Rhodes was the head coach, and Frank Hinkey was the team captain.

1894 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record16–0
Head coach
CaptainFrank Hinkey
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1893
1895 →
1894 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale – 16–0–0
Penn – 12–0–0
Villanova – 1–0–0
Penn State – 6–0–1
Harvard – 11–2–0
Geneva – 5–1–0
Princeton – 8–2–0
Temple – 4–1–0
Holy Ghost College – 7–2–1
Washington & Jefferson – 5–2–1
Brown – 10–5–0
Bucknell – 5–3–0
Colgate – 2–1–1
Army – 3–2–0
Franklin & Marshall – 6–4–0
Cornell – 6–4–1
Trinity (CT) – 4–3–0
Syracuse – 6–5–0
Tufts – 6–5–0
Massachusetts – 3–3–0
Swarthmore – 5–5–0
Western Univ. Penn – 1–1–0
Lafayette – 5–6–0
New Hampshire – 2–3–0
Rutgers – 4–6–0
Lehigh – 5–9–0
Drexel – 1–3–0
MIT – 1–4–0
Boston College – 1–6–0
Carlisle – 1–8–0
Buffalo – 0–2–0
NYU – 0–3–0
Wesleyan – 0–5–0

There was no contemporaneous system in 1894 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2]

Five Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1894 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback George Adee, fullback Frank Butterworth, end Frank Hinkey, center Phillip Stillman, and guard Bill Hickok.[3]

The Bulldogs' 16–0 record was not matched again at any level of college football until 125 years later when North Dakota State won the 2019 FCS National Championship.[4] In 2026, Indiana matched the record in the CFP National Championship with a victory over Miami (FL) for its first national championship.[5]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29at Trinity (CT)
W 42–0600[6][7]
October 3Brown
W 28–02,500[8]
October 6at Crescent Athletic Club
W 10–03,000[9]
October 10Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–475[10][11]
October 13Lehigh
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–0[12]
October 17vs. Dartmouth
W 34–0700[13][14]
October 20at Orange Athletic Club
W 24–02,500[15]
October 24Boston Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0[16]
October 27at Army
W 12–56,000[17]
October 31Volunteer (NY) Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 42–0[18]
November 33:15 p.m.at Brown
W 12–05,000[19][20]
November 7Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 67–0[21]
November 10vs. Lehigh
W 50–0[22]
November 14Chicago Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 48–01,500[23]
November 24vs. Harvard
  • Hampden Park
  • Springfield, MA (rivalry)
W 12–423,000[24]
December 12:08 p.m.vs. Princeton
W 24–020,000–30,000[25][26][27][28]

Roster

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References

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  1. 1 2 "1894 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Football Bowl Subdivision Records" (PDF). NCAA. 2015. p. 107. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2016. p. 5. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ "North Dakota State beats James Madison, wins eighth FCS title". ESPN. Associated Press. January 11, 2020. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  5. ↑ Singh, Sanjesh (January 19, 2026). "Recap: Indiana beats Miami 27–21 in CFP National Championship game". NBC Miami. Retrieved January 20, 2026. Fernando Mendoza and the No. 1 Hoosiers outlasted the No. 10 Hurricanes in Miami on Monday night.
  6. ↑ "Yale, 42; Trinity, 0". The Boston Post. Boston, Massachusetts. September 30, 1894. p. 3. Retrieved June 21, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ↑ "Trinity Fails To Score.—Yale's Foot-Ball Team Too Heavy for Its Opponents". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 1, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved June 22, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ↑ "Yale 28, Brown 0". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 4, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ↑ "On the Gridiron: Yale Surprised at the Crescent Team's Strength". The Brooklyn Citizen. October 7, 1894. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Scored On Yale.—Williams Made a Hole in the Line at New Haven". The Meriden Daily Journal. Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 1894. p. 8. Retrieved June 26, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ↑ "Yale Scored Against Williams by the Williams Football Team -- Captain Hinckey is Charged with Kicking a Man". Boston Evening Transcript. October 11, 1894. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Yale Walks Over Lehigh". The Philadelphia Times. October 14, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Yale 34, Dartmouth 0". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 18, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. ↑ "Yales Wins Over Dartmouth". Boston Evening Transcript. Boston, Massachusetts. October 18, 1894. p. 5. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ↑ "Yale, 24; Orange A.C, O". The Sun. October 21, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Small Score: B.A.A. Holds Yale Down to 23 Points". The Boston Globe. October 25, 1894. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ "Yale 12, West Point 5". The Boston Globe. October 28, 1894. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ↑ "'Twas Easy for Yale: The Volunteers Make a Weak Showing Against the Blue's Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 1, 1894. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ "Yale 12, Brown 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 4, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  20. ↑ "Brown's Plucky Fight". New York Tribune. New York, New York. November 4, 1894. p. 9. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  21. ↑ "Yale's Big Score: The Blue Beats Tufts College Sixty-seven to Nothing". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 8, 1894. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ↑ "Yale's Heavy Scoring: With Many Substitutions She Rolls Up Fifty Points on Lehigh". The Philadelphia Times. November 11, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ↑ "Yale Scores 48". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 15, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  24. ↑ "Yale 12, Harvard 4". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1894. pp. 1, 2, 4 – via NewspaperArchive.
  25. ↑ "Yale, 24 Princeton, 0: The Blue Has an Easy Triumph Over the Tiger". The Philadelphia Times. December 2, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ↑ "Tigers Downed". The Sunday Times. Minneapolis, Minnesota. December 2, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  27. ↑ "Yale 24, Princeton 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. December 2, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  28. ↑ "Yale 24, Princeton 0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. December 2, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  29. ↑ "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.
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