1889 Yale Bulldogs football team

1889 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference Independent
1889 record 15-1
Head coach Walter Camp (2nd year)
Captain Charles O. Gill

The 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1889 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 15-1 record under second-year head coach Walter Camp. Camp became known as the "Father of American Football". The 1890 Yale team recorded 12 shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 661 to 31. Its only loss was in the final game of the season against rival Princeton by a 10-0 score.[1]

Three Yale players (end Amos Alonzo Stagg, guard Pudge Heffelfinger and tackle Charles O. Gill) were named to the 1889 College Football All-America Team, the first college football All-America team as selected by Caspar Whitney.[2] Stagg and Heffelfinger have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

References

  1. "Yale Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  2. The All-America Team for 1889 selected by Casper Whitney is identified in the NCAA guide to football award winners
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