1923 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1923 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1923 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an undefeated 8–0 record under sixth-year head coach Tad Jones. Yale outscored its opponents by a combined score of 230 to 38, including a 40–0 victory over Georgia, a 31–10 victory over Army and shutout victories over rivals Princeton and Harvard.[1] Two Yale players, tackle Century Milstead and fullback Bill Mallory, were consensus selections for the 1923 College Football All-America Team.[2] The team was selected retroactively as a co-national champion by the Berryman QPRS system.[3]

1923 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (QPRS)
ConferenceIndependent
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Uniform
1923 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Cornell   –    8 –0 –0
Yale   –    8 –0 –0
Dartmouth   –    8 –1 –0
Syracuse   –    8 –1 –0
Boston College   –    7 –1 –1
Rutgers   –    7 –1 –1
Lafayette   –    6 –1 –2
Tufts   –    6 –2 –0
Army   –    6 –2 –1
Colgate   –    6 –2 –1
Lehigh   –    6 –2 –1
NYU   –    6 –2 –1
Penn State   –    6 –2 –1
Brown   –    6 –4 –0
Harvard   –    4 –3 –1
Carnegie Tech   –    4 –3 –1
Penn   –    5 –4 –0
Pittsburgh   –    5 –4 –0
Bucknell   –    4 –4 –1
Columbia   –    4 –4 –1
Duquesne   –    4 –4 –0
Princeton   –    3 –3 –1
Franklin & Marshall   –    3 –5 –1
Drexel   –    2 –6 –0
Fordham   –    2 –7 –0
Villanova   –    0 –7 –1
Temple   –    0 –5 –0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 6 North CarolinaW 53–0
October 13 Georgia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 40–0
October 20 Bucknell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 29–14
October 27 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–0
November 3 Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 31–10
November 10 Maryland
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–14
November 17 Princeton
W 27–0
November 24at Harvard W 13–0

References

  1. "1923 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1155
  3. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
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