American college football season
The 1884 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1884 college football season . The team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 495 to 10.[ 1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis .[ 2]
Schedule
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Roster
Rushers: F. W. Wallace, Samuel Reading Bertron , H. R. Flanders, F. G. Peters, A. B. Coxe, R. Ronalds, W. N. Goodwin, Sheffield, L. F. Robinson, R. S. Storrs
Quarterback: T. L. Bayne
Halfbacks: Eugene Lamb Richards , Wyllys Terry
Back: M. H. Marlin
References
^ a b "1884 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF) . NCAA Division I Football Records . NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016 .
^ Football ad - Newspapers.com
^ "College Football Games" . The New York Times . New York, New York . October 23, 1884. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Saturday's Foot Ball Games" . Hartford Courant . Hartford, Connecticut . October 27, 1884. p. 1. Retrieved March 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "The Harvards Badly Beaten: The Yale Football Team Whip Them by a Score of 52 to 0" . The New York Times . November 23, 1884. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Hard Work and No Glory: The Princeton-Yale Football Game Declared Drawn" . The New York Times . November 28, 1884. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com .
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