The 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1889 college football season . In their second season under head coach Walter Camp , Yale compiled a 15–1 record, held opponents scoreless in 12 games, and outscored all opponents by a total of 664 to 31. Its only loss was in the final game of the season against rival Princeton by a 10–0 score.[1]
Three Yale players (end Amos Alonzo Stagg , guard Pudge Heffelfinger and tackle Charles O. Gill ) were named to the 1889 College Football All-America Team , the first college football All-America team as selected by Caspar Whitney .[2] College Football Hall of Fame .
Schedule [ ] Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source September 28 [[{{{school}}}|Wesleyan]] W 38–0
October 9 at [[{{{school}}}|Wesleyan]] Middletown, CT W 63–5
October 12 Williams W 36–0 [3] October 16 Cornell W 56–6 [4] October 19 Amherst W 42–0 [5] October 24 at Trinity Hartford, CT W 64–0 [6] October 26 at Columbia Berkeley Oval New York, NY W 62–0 [7] October 30 at Penn (rivalry) Philadelphia W 22–10 [8] October 31 vs. [[{{{school}}}|Stevens]] Berkeley Oval New York, NY W 30–0 [9] November 5 at Crescent Athletic Club Brooklyn W 18–0 [10] November 9 at Cornell Ithaca, NY W 70–02,000 [11] November 12 at Amherst Amherst, MA W 32–0 [12] November 13 at Williams W 70–0
November 16 vs. [[{{{school}}}|Wesleyan]] Springfield, MA W 52–0 [13] November 23 vs. Harvard Hampden Park Springfield, MA (rivalry ) W 6–015,000 [14] November 28 vs. Princeton L 0–10>25,000 [15]
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↑ "1889 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/yale/1889-schedule.html . Retrieved January 6, 2018 .↑ The All-America Team for 1889 selected by Casper Whitney is identified in the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived 2009-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "No Science In The Play: Yale Defeats Williams in a Very Rough Game of Football" . The New York Times . https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16345376/no_science_in_the_play_yale_defeats/ .↑ "Yale Wins at Football: Cornell Defeated by a Score of 56 to 6" . The New York Times : p. 2. October 17, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16345692/yale_wins_at_football_cornell_defeated/ .↑ "Yale Defeats Amherst" . The New York Times : p. 3. October 28, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16345804/yale_defeats_amherst/ .↑ "Yale 64, Trinity 0: The Blues Easily Win at Hartford -- Casualties and Score" . Burlington Daily Free Press : p. 1. October 25, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16346010/yale_64_trinity_0/ .↑ "Yale Beats Columbia, and Princeton Wins, Too" . The New York Times : p. 2. October 27, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16346250/yale_beats_columbia/ .↑ "Yale Takes The Game" . The Times (Philadelphia) : p. 2. October 31, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16346454/yale_takes_the_game/ .↑ "Yale's New Football Men: Corbin, Terry and Beecher Play Against Stevens" . The New York Times : p. 2. November 1, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16346848/yales_new_football_men/ .↑ "Yale Muscle Wins Again" . The Sun (New York) : p. 8. November 6, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16346611/yale_muscle_wins_again/ .↑ "Cornell Defeated By Yale" . Rochester Democrat and Chronicle : p. 6. November 10, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16347050/cornell_defeated_by_yale/ .↑ "Yale Plays The Return Game With Amherst And Wins" . The New York Times : p. 1. November 13, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16347170/yale_played_the_return_game_with/ .↑ "Yale, 52; Wesleyan, 0" . The New York Times : p. 5. November 17, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16347378/yale_52_wesleyan_0/ .↑ "Yale Wins From Harvard" . The New York Times : p. 1. November 24, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16347555/yale_wins_from_harvard/ .↑ "Princeton Wins Gloriously" . The Sun (New York) : p. 1. November 29, 1889. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16347725/princeton_won_gloriously/ .
