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1880 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   4 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   4 – 0 – 1
Kentucky University   –   2 – 0 – 0
Michigan   –   1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   2 – 2 – 2
Penn   –   2 – 2 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 2 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   0 – 1 – 1
Massachusetts   –   0 – 1 – 1
Stevens   –   1 – 4 – 0
Brown   –   0 – 1 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 1 – 0
Philadelphia Crescent AC   –   0 – 1 – 0
Toronto   –   0 – 1 – 0
Centre   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1880 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1880 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record, did not allow opposing teams to score a single point, outscored all opponents, 30–0, and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion with Princeton by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 103:00 p.m.Columbia
W 13–0600[3][4]
November 13Brown
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 8–0250[5]
November 17vs. Penn
W 8–0500[6][7]
November 202:45 p.m.at Harvard
W 1–0700[8]
November 252:30 p.m.vs. Princeton
T 0–04,000[9][10]

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Roster

  • Rushers: Philo Carroll Fuller, Charles S. Beck, Louis K. Hull, John S. Harding, Benjamin B. Lamb, Charles Bigelow Storrs, Franklin M. Eaton
  • Quarterback: Walter Irving Badger
  • Halfbacks: Robert W. Watson, Walter Camp
  • Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon
  • Others: John L. Adams, George H. Clark, John S. Durand, Howard H. Knapp, Chester W. Lyman, John F. Merrill, John Moorhead Jr., William Nixon, William A. Peters, Frederic Remington, Adrian S. Vandegraaf, Frederick R. Vernon
  • Manager: William B. Hill

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References

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "1880 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "College Notes". Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. November 10, 1880. p. 3. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "A Victory For Yale". Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. November 11, 1880. p. 2. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "College Notes". Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. November 15, 1880. p. 2. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Yale's Easy Victory At Foot-Ball". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 18, 1880. p. 5. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "College Teams At Foot Ball.—The Pennsylvania University Club Badly Defeated by the Yales". The Sun. New York, New York. November 18, 1880. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Harvard Vs. Yale". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 21, 1880. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ^ "Vain Work At Foot-Ball". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 26, 1880. p. 2. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ^ "Football In The Snow". The Sun. New York, New York. November 26, 1880. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 81.
  12. ^ Tim Cohane (1951). The Yale Football Story. Putnam. p. 343.
  13. ^ "Yale Football 2009 Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. pp. 113–125.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880_Yale_Bulldogs_football_team