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1890 Yale Bulldogs football team

1890 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record13–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Rhodes
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1889
1891 →
1890 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     11 0 0
Yale     13 1 0
Princeton     11 1 1
Franklin & Marshall     8 2 0
Navy     5 1 1
Penn     11 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     2 1 0
Cornell     7 4 0
Syracuse     7 4 0
Springfield YMCA     5 3 0
Lehigh     6 4 0
Rutgers     5 5 1
Penn State     2 2 0
Colgate     1 1 0
Wesleyan     5 6 0
Tufts     2 3 0
NYU     2 4 0
Western Univ. Penn     1 2 0
Lafayette     2 5 1
Fordham     1 3 1
Brown     2 5 0
Bucknell     1 4 1
Massachusetts     1 4 0
Columbia     1 5 1
Army     0 1 0
Geneva     0 1 0

The 1890 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1890 college football season. In its third year under head coach Walter Camp, the team compiled a 13–1 record, recorded 12 shutouts, and outscored all opponents by a total of 486 to 18. Its only loss was to rival Harvard by a 12–6 score.[1]

Three Yale players (halfback Thomas McClung, guard Pudge Heffelfinger, and tackle William Rhodes) were consensus picks for the 1890 College Football All-America Team.[2] All three have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

  1. ^ "1890 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.

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