1880 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1880 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1880 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record, did not allow opposing teams to score a single point, outscored all opponents, 30–0, and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion with Princeton by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

1880 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Billingsley) Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)
Conference	Independent
1880 record	4–0–1
Head coach	None
Home stadium	Hamilton Park

1880 college football records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					4	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					4	–	0	–	1
Kentucky University			–					2	–	0	–	0
Michigan			–					1	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					3	–	2	–	0
Harvard			–					2	–	2	–	2
Rutgers			–					2	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	2	–	0
Stevens			–					1	–	5	–	0
Amherst			–					0	–	1	–	1
Massachusetts			–					0	–	1	–	1
Brown			–					0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	0
Toronto			–					0	–	1	–	0
Centre			–					0	–	2	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
November 10	Columbia	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 13–0
November 13	Brown	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 8–0
November 17	vs. Penn	New York, NY	W 8–0
November 20	at Harvard	South End Grounds Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 1–0
November 25	vs. Princeton	New York, NY (rivalry)	T 0–0

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Roster

• Rushers: Philo Carroll Fuller, Charles S. Beck, Louis K. Hull, John S. Harding, Benjamin B. Lamb, Charles Bigelow Storrs, Franklin M. Eaton
• Quarterback: Walter Irving Badger
• Halfbacks: Robert W. Watson, Walter Camp
• Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon
• Others: John L. Adams, George H. Clark, John S. Durand, Howard H. Knapp, Chester W. Lyman, John F. Merrill, John Moorhead Jr., William Nixon, William A. Peters, Frederic Remington, Adrian S. Vandegraaf, Frederick R. Vernon
• Manager: William B. Hill

Source:[3][4][5]

References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. pp. 105–106. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. "1880 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. Richard Melancthon Hurd (1888). A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 81.
4. Tim Cohane (1951). The Yale Football Story. Putnam. p. 343.
5. "Yale Football 2009 Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. pp. 113–125.