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1896 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1896 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record13–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
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1897 →
1896 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Fordham     1 0 0
Lafayette     11 0 1
Princeton     10 0 1
Washington & Jefferson     8 0 1
Penn     14 1 0
Yale     13 1 0
Pittsburgh College     11 2 0
Buffalo     9 1 2
Villanova     10 4 0
Bucknell     5 2 1
Harvard     7 4 0
Boston College     5 3 0
Storrs     5 3 0
Cornell     5 3 1
Syracuse     5 3 2
Temple     3 2 0
Army     3 2 1
Rutgers     6 6 0
Carlisle     5 5 0
Holy Cross     2 2 2
Brown     4 5 1
Wesleyan     4 5 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 4 2
Geneva     3 4 0
Penn State     3 4 0
Colgate     3 4 1
Amherst     3 6 1
Western Univ. Penn.     3 6 0
Lehigh     2 5 0
Tufts     2 6 1
Swarthmore     2 6 0
New Hampshire     1 4 0
Drexel     1 5 0
Massachusetts     0 4 0
Rhode Island     0 4 0

The 1896 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1896 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 13–1 record under first-year head coach Sam Thorne. The team recorded nine shutouts and won its first 13 games by a combined 212 to 29 score. It then lost its final game against rival Princeton by a 24–6 score.[1]

Two Yale players, quarterback Clarence Fincke and tackle Fred T. Murphy, were consensus picks for the 1896 College Football All-America Team.[2] Leslie's Weekly also picked three other Yale players (ends Lyman Bass and Louis Hinkey and center Burr Chamberlain) as 1896 first-team All-America players.[3]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26at Trinity (CT) Hartford, CTW 6–0 [4]
September 30 AmherstW 12–0 [5]
October 7 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–01,800[6][7]
October 10vs. Orange Athletic Club
W 12–01,000[8]
October 14 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0 [9]
October 17 Dartmouth
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 42–0 [10]
October 21 Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0 [11]
October 24vs. CarlisleW 12–65,000[12]
October 28 Elizabeth Athletic Club
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–6 [13]
October 31at Army
W 16–2 [14]
November 3 Boston Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 10–02,500[15]
November 7at Brown
W 18–62,500[16][17]
November 14 New Jersey Athletic Club
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0 [18]
November 21 Princeton
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY (rivalry)
L 6–2435,000–50,000[19][20]

References

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  1. ^ "1896 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. ^ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  4. ^ "Yale Scores But Once On Trinity's Eleven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 27, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Amherst Gives Yale a Hard Tussle". Boston Post. October 1, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale 18, Brown 0". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Victory for the Blue". Chicago Tribune. October 8, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale, 12; Orange, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 11, 1896. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale, 22; Williams, O". Boston Post. October 15, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Yale Beats Dartmouth Easily". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 18, 1896. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Yale, 16; Wesleyan, 0". Boston Post. October 22, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Yale Had a Close Call". The New York Times. October 25, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Close Formation Plays Give Yale a Surprise: Elizabeth A. C. Scores Six Points, and the Blue Goes Them Six Points Better". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 29, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Yale, 16; West Point, 2". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 1, 1896. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Yale, 10; Boston A.A., 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 4, 1896. p. 10.
  16. ^ "Yale-Brown". Buffalo Evening News. Buffalo, New York. November 7, 1896. p. 51. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  17. ^ "Brown University Scores Against Yale". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 8, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Yale Held Down: Scored But Sixteen Points Against the New Jersey Athletic Club". Washington Times. November 15, 1896. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Nassau Beats Eli: Princeton Football Players Bowled Over Yale's Warriors and Won Easily on Manhattan Field". The New York Times. November 22, 1896. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Princeton Won at Manhattan Field and the Blow Almost Killed Eli". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 22, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.