1881 Yale Bulldogs football team

1881 Yale Bulldogs football
1881 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (NCF); Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	5–0–1
Head coach	None;
Captain	Franklin M. Eaton
Home stadium	Hamilton Park
	Seasons ← 1880 1882 →

1881 college football records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
MIT		–		3	–	0	–	0
Richmond		–		2	–	0	–	0
Georgetown		–		1	–	0	–	0
Yale		–		5	–	0	–	1
Princeton		–		7	–	0	–	2
Penn State		–		1	–	0	–	0
Columbian University		–		1	–	0	–	1
Dartmouth		–		1	–	0	–	1
Harvard		–		6	–	1	–	1
Massachusetts		–		2	–	1	–	1
Kentucky University		–		2	–	1	–	0
Columbia		–		3	–	3	–	1
Rutgers		–		2	–	4	–	1
Stevens		–		1	–	2	–	1
Kentucky State College		–		1	–	2	–	0
CCNY		–		1	–	1	–	1
Amherst		–		0	–	3	–	2
Lewisburg		–		0	–	1	–	0
MIT		–		3	–	0	–	0
Wesleyan		–		0	–	1	–	0
Randolph–Macon		–		0	–	2	–	0
Michigan		–		0	–	3	–	0
Penn		–		0	–	5	–	0

The 1881 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1881 college football season. The team compiled a 5–0–1 record, did not allow opposing teams to score a single point, outscored all opponents, 10-0, and was retroactively named co-national champions by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.^[1]^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 29	2:30 p.m.	at Amherst	Amherst, MA	W 2–0		^[3]
November 2		Michigan	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 2–0	600	^[4]
November 5		Amherst	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 4–0		^[5]
November 12	2:40 p.m.	Harvard	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 1–0	1,500	^[6]
November 16		at Columbia	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 1–0		^[7]
November 24		vs. Princeton	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	T 0–0	10,000	^[8]

^[2]

Roster

Rushers: Howard H. Knapp, Arthur L. Farwell, Ray Tompkins, Louis K. Hull, Charles Bigelow Storrs, Franklin M. Eaton, Charles S. Beck
Quarterback: Walter Irving Badger
Halfbacks: Eugene Lamb Richards, Walter Camp
Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon

Source:^[9]

References

^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "1881 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ "Yale and Amherst at Foot-Ball". The New York Times. October 31, 1881. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "College Foot-Ball". The New York Times. November 3, 1881. p. 8.
^ "Yale Against Amherst". The New York Times. November 6, 1881. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale Overcomes Harvard". The New York Times. November 13, 1881. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Pretty Lively Football: Yale Defeats Columbia After a Long and Hot Battle". The Sun. November 17, 1881. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Princeton Faces Yale: Playing Foot-Ball in a Freezing Wind". The New York Times. November 25, 1881. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 82.