1879 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1879 Yale Bulldogs football
Yale Bulldogs, co-national champions
Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	3–0–2
Head coach	None
Captain	Walter Camp
Home stadium	Hamilton Park
Seasons← 1878 1880 →

1879 college football records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Princeton		–		4	–	0	–	1
Yale		–		3	–	0	–	2
Massachusetts		–		1	–	0	–	0
Michigan		–		1	–	0	–	1
Haverford		–		1	–	0	–	1
Harvard		–		2	–	1	–	2
Penn		–		2	–	2	–	0
Amherst		–		1	–	1	–	0
Navy		–		0	–	0	–	1
McGill		–		0	–	0	–	1
Toronto		–		0	–	0	–	1
Stevens		–		1	–	2	–	5
Rutgers		–		1	–	2	–	3
Pennsylvania Military		–		0	–	1	–	1
NYU		–		0	–	2	–	1
Racine		–		0	–	1	–	0
Swarthmore		–		0	–	1	–	0
Columbia		–		0	–	3	–	2

The 1879 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1879 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0–2 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
November 1		vs. Penn	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ	W 3–0
November 8		Harvard	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT (rivalry)	T 0–0	1,500–2,000
November 15		Rutgers	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 5–0	300
November 22	3:00 p.m.	vs. Columbia	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ	W 2–0
November 27	2:40 p.m.	vs. Princeton	St. George's Cricket Club grounds Hoboken, NJ (rivalry)	T 0–0	6,000–7,000

Roster

Forwards: Franklin M. Eaton, John S. Harding, Louis K. Hull, Benjamin B. Lamb, Howard H. Knapp, John Moorhead Jr., Frederic Remington, Charles S. Beck
Halfbacks: Walter Irving Badger, Walter Camp, George H. Clark, William A. Peters, Robert W. Watson
Backs: William K. Nixon, Chester W. Lyman
Others: Benjamin Wisner Bacon, John S. Durand, John F. Merrill, Charles B. Storrs, Frederick R. Vernon
Manager: Eugene W. Walker

References

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
^ "1879 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
"College Foot Ball". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 3, 1879. p. 2. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"Football: Annual Match Between the Teams of Yale and Harvard". New York Daily Herald. November 9, 1879. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
"Match Between The College Teams Of Rutgers, Of New York, and Yale, Of New Haven". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 16, 1879. p. 12. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"Desperate Struggle Between Yale and Columbia At Hoboken—The New Haven Boys Victorious". New York Herald. New York, New York. November 23, 1879. p. 13. Retrieved April 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
"Kicking The Leather Egg". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 28, 1879. p. 8. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"Foot-ball.–A Hotly-Contested Game Between Yale and Princeton Ends in a Draw". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 28, 1879. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 81.
Tim Cohane (1951). The Yale Football Story. Putnam. p. 343.
"Yale Football 2009 Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. pp. 113–125.

v t e 1879 Yale Bulldogs football—national champions
Benjamin Wisner Bacon Walter Irving Badger Walter Camp Louis K. Hull John Moorhead Frederic Remington

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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