1872 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1872 Yale Bulldogs football team - Wikipedia

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1872 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	1–0
Head coach	None
Captain	David Schley Schaff
Home stadium	Hamilton Park
Seasons 1873 →

1872 college football records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Princeton		–		1	–	0	–	0
Yale		–		1	–	0	–	0
Rutgers		–		1	–	1	–	1
Columbia		–		1	–	2	–	1
Stevens		–		0	–	1	–	0

The 1872 Yale Bulldogs football team was a football team that represented Yale University in the 1872 college football season. The team (which played a game based on the association football laws)^[1] finished with a 1–0 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[2]

They played Columbia at Hamilton Park and won 3–0.^[3] Each team had 20 players and the field was 400 feet long and 250 wide (134 by 83 yards). Tommy Sherman scored the first goal and Lew Irwin the other two.^[4] The team's captain was David Schley Schaff, who attended the Rugby School in England where he learned to play football.^[5]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
November 16	2:45 p.m.	Columbia	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 3–0	400	^[6]

References

^ Best of the 1870s: The defining players and teams of college football’s first decade by Matt Brown on The Athletic, January 28, 2019
^ "National Poll Champions" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 110. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
^ "1872 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ "Timeline of Yale Football". Yale University. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "Football by Year" (PDF). Yale University. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "Foot-ball—The Inter-University Match Between Yale and Columbia". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 17, 1872. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .

v t e Yale Bulldogs football
Venues	Hamilton Park (1872–1883) Yale Field (1884–1914, 1916) Yale Bowl (1914–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Harvard Princeton Lehigh: Yank Townsend Trophy
Culture & lore	1910 Vanderbilt game 1927 Georgia game 1968 Harvard game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank Handsome Dan "Boola Boola" Pigskin Parade Huddle
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
National championship seasons in bold

v t e College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)
1869–1879	1869: Princeton / Rutgers 1870: Princeton 1871: None 1872: Princeton / Yale 1873: Princeton 1874: Harvard / Princeton / Yale 1875: Columbia / Harvard / Princeton 1876: Yale 1877: Princeton / Yale 1878: Princeton 1879: Princeton
1880s	1880: Princeton / Yale 1881: Princeton / Yale 1882: Yale 1883: Yale 1884: Princeton / Yale 1885: Princeton 1886: Princeton / Yale 1887: Yale 1888: Yale 1889: Princeton
1890s	1890: Harvard 1891: Yale 1892: Yale 1893: Princeton / Yale 1894: Penn / Princeton / Yale 1895: Penn / Yale 1896: Lafayette / Princeton 1897: Penn / Yale 1898: Harvard / Princeton 1899: Harvard / Princeton
1900s	1900: Yale 1901: Harvard / Michigan / Yale 1902: Michigan / Yale 1903: Michigan / Princeton 1904: Michigan / Minnesota / Penn 1905: Chicago / Yale 1906: Princeton / Yale 1907: Yale 1908: Harvard / LSU / Penn 1909: Yale
1910s	1910: Harvard / Pittsburgh 1911: Penn State / Princeton 1912: Harvard / Penn State 1913: Auburn / Chicago / Harvard 1914: Army / Illinois / Texas 1915: Cornell / Minnesota / Oklahoma / Pittsburgh 1916: Army / Georgia Tech / Pittsburgh 1917: Georgia Tech 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh 1919: Centre / Harvard / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M
1920s	1920: California / Georgia / Harvard / Notre Dame / Princeton 1921: California / Cornell / Iowa / Lafayette / Washington & Jefferson / Vanderbilt 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton / Vanderbilt 1923: California / Cornell / Illinois / Michigan / Yale 1924: Notre Dame / Penn 1925: Alabama / Dartmouth / Michigan 1926: Alabama / Lafayette / Michigan / Navy / Stanford 1927: Georgia / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M / Yale 1928: Detroit / Georgia Tech / USC 1929: Notre Dame / Pittsburgh / USC
1930s	1930: Alabama / Notre Dame 1931: Pittsburgh / Purdue / USC 1932: Colgate / Michigan / USC 1933: Michigan / Ohio State / Princeton / USC 1934: Alabama / Minnesota 1935: LSU / Minnesota / Princeton / SMU / TCU

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