1886 Yale Bulldogs football team

National champion (Helms, NCF) Co-national champion (Davis) IFA co-champion
1886 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Intercollegiate Football Association
1886 record	9–0–1 ( )
Head coach	No coach
Captain	Robert Corwin
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ← 1885 1887 →

v · d · e	Conf			Overall
1886 college football records
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Yale		–		9	–	0	–	1
Princeton		–		7	–	0	–	1
Michigan		–		2	–	0	–	0
Harvard		–		12	–	2	–	0
California		–		6	–	2	–	1
Massachusetts		–		2	–	1	–	0
Navy		–		3	–	3	–	0
Dartmouth		–		2	–	2	–	0
Rutgers		–		1	–	3	–	0
Northwestern		–		0	–	1	–	0
Vermont		–		0	–	1	–	0
Minnesota		–		0	–	2	–	0

The 1886 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[1]^[2]

On Thanksgiving Day in Princeton, New Jersey, undefeated teams from Yale and Princeton met. The game started late due to the absence of a referee, and heavy rain caused the game to be called on account of darkness with Yale leading 4–0 in the second half. Under the rules of the time, the game was declared "no contest" by the substitute referee, and the final score was declared to be 0–0. After a special meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association held to review the game, the Association issued a two-part resolution: that (1) Yale should have been acknowledged the winner, but that (2) under their existing rules, the Association did not have the authority to award the game to them.^[3]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 6	[[{{{school}}}\|Wesleyan]]	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 75–0
October 9	at Wesleyan	Middletown, CT	W 62–0
October 16	MIT	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 96–0
October 20	at [[{{{school}}}\|Stevens]]	Hoboken, NJ	W 54–0
October 23	at Williams	Williamstown, MA	W 76–0
October 30	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 136–0
November 2	at Crescent Athletic Club	New York, NY	W 84–0
November 13	Penn	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 75–0
November 20	at Harvard	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	W 29–4
November 25	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	T 0–0

Source: SR/College Football^[2]

References[]

↑ 1886 Yale University football scores and results Archived 2014-07-28 at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 16, 2014.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "1886 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/yale/1886-schedule.html. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
↑ "No Football Champions.; But Princeton Challenges Yale To Another Game On Saturday". The New York Times. November 28, 1886. https://www.nytimes.com/1886/11/28/archives/no-football-champions-but-princeton-challenges-yale-to-another-game.html.

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