1898 Yale Bulldogs football team

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).[1]

1898 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1898 record9–2
Head coach
CaptainBurr Chamberlain
Home stadiumYale Field
1898 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard   –    11 –0 –0
Drexel   –    7 –0 –0
Princeton   –    11 –0 –1
Penn   –    12 –1 –0
Buffalo   –    8 –1 –0
Cornell   –    10 –2 –0
Syracuse   –    8 –2 –1
Yale   –    9 –2 –0
Wesleyan   –    7 –3 –0
Western Penn.   –    5 –2 –1
Brown   –    6 –4 –0
Carlisle   –    6 –4 –0
Penn State   –    6 –4 –0
Army   –    3 –2 –1
Pittsburgh College   –    5 –4 –1
Bucknell   –    4 –4 –3
Fordham   –    1 –1 –2
Frankin & Marshall   –    4 –4 –2
New Hampshire   –    4 –4 –0
Amherst   –    4 –5 –1
Villanova   –    2 –4 –1
Lehigh   –    3 –6 –1
Boston College   –    2 –5 –1
Colgate   –    2 –5 –1
Temple   –    2 –5 –0
Lafayette   –    3 –8 –0
Geneva   –    1 –4 –1
NYU   –    1 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    1 –6 –1
Tufts   –    1 –9 –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.[2]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24at Trinity (CT) Hartford, CTW 18–0 [3]
October 1 Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 5–0 [4]
October 5 Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–0 [5]
October 8 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0 [6]
October 15at Newton Athletic Association Newton, MAW 6–0 [7]
October 19 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–6 [8]
October 22 Carlisle
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–5 [9]
October 29at Army West Point, NYW 10–05,000[10]
November 5 Chicago Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 10–0 [11]
November 12at Princeton
L 0–616,500[12]
November 19 Harvard New Haven, CT (rivalry)L 0–1717,500[13]

References
  1. "1898 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. "Yale's First Game: The New Have Collegians Defeat Trinity 18 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). September 25, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Yale's Small Score". The Times (Philadelphia). October 2, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Yale Plays Fiercely: Puts Up a Game That Greatly Pleases Her Supporters". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 6, 1898. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Yale Makes Twenty-Three: And Is Nearly Scored on in the Last Half by Williams". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 9, 1898. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Narrow Escape: Yale Defeated the Newton A.A. Team, But It Was by a Narrow Margin". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 16, 1898. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Brown Scores on Yale". Chicago Tribune. October 20, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Yale, 18; Carlisle Indians, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 23, 1898. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Fall In Brilliant Defeat: West Point Beaten By Yale After a Game Struggle". Chicago Tribune. October 30, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Yale, 10; Chicago A.A., 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 6, 1898. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Princeton Is Victorious". The New York Times. November 13, 1898. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Harvard Is The Victor". The New York Times. November 20, 1898. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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