1887 Yale Bulldogs football team

1887 Yale Bulldogs football
Consensus national champion IFA champion
Conference	Intercollegiate Football Association
1887 record	9–0 ( )
Head coach	No coach
Captain	Harry Beecher
Home stadium	Yale Field

1887 college football records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	0
Michigan			–					5	–	0	–	0
California			–					4	–	0	–	0
Minnesota			–					2	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	2	–	0
Navy			–					3	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					3	–	1	–	1
Virginia			–					0	–	0	–	1
Rutgers			–					3	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts			–					2	–	3	–	0
Indiana			–					0	–	1	–	0
Purdue			–					0	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					0	–	2	–	0
Notre Dame			–					0	–	3	–	0

The 1887 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1887 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.^[1][2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 5	Wesleyan*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 38–0
October 15	at Wesleyan*	Middletown, CT	W 106–0
October 22	at Williams*	Williamstown, MA	W 74–0
October 29	at Penn*	Philadelphia, PA	W 50–0
November 6	Rutgers*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 74–0
November 8	at Crescent Athletic Club*	New York, NY	W 68–0
November 12	Wesleyan*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 76–4
November 19	vs. Princeton*	New York, NY	W 12–0
November 24	vs. Harvard*	Polo Grounds • New York, NY (The Game)	W 17–8
*Non-conference game.

References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. 1887 Yale University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 18, 2014.