1898 Yale Bulldogs football team

1898 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
1898 record	9–2
Head coach	Frank Butterworth (2nd season)
Captain	Burr Chamberlain
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons

The 1898 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1898 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 9–2 record under second-year head coach Frank Butterworth. The team recorded seven shutouts and won its first nine games by a combined 146 to 11 score. It then lost its final two games against rivals Princeton (6–0) and Harvard (17–0).

Three Yale players, halfback Malcolm McBride and guards Burr Chamberlain and Gordon Brown, were consensus picks for the 1898 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	at Trinity	Hartford, CT	W 18–0
October 1	[[{{{school}}}|Wesleyan]]	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 5–0
October 5	Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 34–0
October 8	Williams	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 23–0
October 15	at Newton Athletic Association	Newton, MA	W 6–0
October 19	Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–6
October 22	Carlisle	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 18–5
October 29	at Army	West Point, NY	W 10–0	5,000
November 5	Chicago Athletic Ass'n	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 10–0
November 12	at Princeton	Brokaw Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–6	16,500
November 19	Harvard	New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–17	17,500