1884 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1884 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1884 college football season. The team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 495 to 10.[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2]

1884 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Helms, NCF) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
1884 record	8–0–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Eugene Lamb Richards
Home stadium	Yale Field

1884 college football records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					9	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					8	–	0	–	1
Michigan			–					2	–	0	–	0
Williams			–					2	–	0	–	0
Navy			–					1	–	0	–	0
Wabash			–					1	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					5	–	1	–	1
Fordham			–					5	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					7	–	4	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	2	–	0
Butler			–					1	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	4	–	0
Stevens			–					4	–	5	–	0
Dartmouth			–					1	–	2	–	1
Tufts			–					2	–	4	–	1
Massachusetts			–					1	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	5	–	0
Johns Hopkins			–					1	–	3	–	0
Albion			–					0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	0
DePauw			–					0	–	1	–	0
Olivet			–					0	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					0	–	3	–	0
Lehigh			–					0	–	4	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 1	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 31–0
October 11	Stevens	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 96–0
October 18	vs. Wesleyan	Ward Street Grounds[3] Hartford, CT	W 63–0
October 22	at Rutgers	New Brunswick, NJ	W 76–10		[4]
October 25	at Dartmouth	Hanover, NH (rivalry)	W 113–0
November 5	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 46–0
November 19	Yale Alumni	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 18–0
November 22	Harvard	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 52–0	2,400	[5]
November 27	vs. Princeton	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	T 0–0	over 10,000	[6]

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Roster

• Rushers: F. W. Wallace, Samuel Reading Bertron, H. R. Flanders, F. G. Peters, A. B. Coxe, R. Ronalds, W. N. Goodwin, Sheffield, L. F. Robinson, R. S. Storrs
• Quarterback: T. L. Bayne
• Halfbacks: Eugene Lamb Richards, Wyllys Terry
• Back: M. H. Marlin

References

1. "1884 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
3. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16324108/football_ad/
4. "College Foot Ball Contests". Evening Star. October 23, 1884. p. 3.
5. "The Harvards Badly Beaten: The Yale Football Team Whip Them by a Score of 52 to 0". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Hard Work and No Glory: The Princeton-Yale Football Game Declared Drawn". The New York Times. November 28, 1884. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.