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1915 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
CaptainAlexander D. Wilson
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons← 19141916 →
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Columbia     5 0 0
Harvard     8 1 0
Carnegie Tech     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 0
Villanova     6 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 1 1
Colgate     5 1 0
Syracuse     9 1 2
Dartmouth     7 1 1
Tufts     5 1 2
Penn State     7 2 0
Lafayette     8 3 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 0
Temple     3 1 1
Geneva     6 3 0
Wesleyan     6 3 0
Allegheny     5 3 0
Swarthmore     5 3 0
Army     5 3 1
Lehigh     6 4 0
Holy Cross     3 2 2
Brown     5 4 1
Fordham     4 4 0
NYU     4 4 1
Middlebury     3 4 2
Muhlenberg     4 5 0
Yale     4 5 0
Boston College     3 4 0
Penn     3 5 2
WPI     3 5 1
Buffalo     3 5 0
Carlisle     3 6 2
Rhode Island State     3 5 0
New Hampshire     3 6 1
Gettysburg     3 6 0
Rochester     3 6 0
Bucknell     2 6 3
Vermont     1 4 2
Williams     1 7 0

The 1915 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1915 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 4–5 record under second-year head coach Frank Hinkey. It was the first losing season in Yale Bulldogs football history. No Yale player was a consensus All-American, though guard Clinton Black was selected as a first-team player by New York sports writer Monty on his 1915 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 MaineW 37–0
October 2 Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–10
October 9 Lehigh
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–6
October 16 Springfield
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
October 23 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–16
October 30 Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–15
November 6 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–3
November 13 PrincetonW 13–765,000
November 20at HarvardL 0–4149,000

References

  1. "1915 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Yale Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 13, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  3. "Monty Picks All-Star Team: Maulbetsch of Michigan Lands on Second Eleven; He is Only 'Westerner' to Be Honored by the Writer". Fort Wayne News. December 4, 1915.
  4. "Yale Crushes Maine Eleven by Open Play". The Sun. September 26, 1915. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Virginia Blanks Yale with New Haven Tricks". The Sun. October 3, 1915. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Yale Beats Lehigh by a Single Point". The New York Times. October 10, 1915. p. Sports 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Old Eli's Team Wins Easily: Yale Sweeps Over Springfield Team". The Hartford Courant. October 17, 1915. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Yale Beaten Again: Brilliant Passes Work Yale's Defeat". The Hartford Courant. October 24, 1915. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Colgate Humbles Yale Eleven". The New York Times. October 31, 1915. p. Sports 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Yale Disappointing; Humbled by Brown". The New York Times. November 7, 1915. p. 38 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Yale, Roused, Beats Tigers by 13 to 7". New York Tribune. November 14, 1915. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Harvard Rips Yale to Bits; Wins 41 to 0". New York Tribune. November 21, 1915. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.
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