1891 Yale Bulldogs football team

1891 Yale Bulldogs football

National champion IFA champion
Conference	Intercollegiate Football Association
Record	13–0 ( IFA)
Head coach	Walter Camp (4th season)
Captain	Lee McClung
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ← 1890 1892 →

1891 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Yale		–		13	–	0	–	0
Harvard		–		13	–	1	–	0
Princeton		–		12	–	1	–	0
Tufts		–		7	–	1	–	0
Penn		–		11	–	2	–	0
Colgate		–		4	–	1	–	0
Army		–		4	–	1	–	1
Navy		–		5	–	2	–	0
Cornell		–		7	–	3	–	0
Geneva		–		4	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		4	–	2	–	0
Lehigh		–		7	–	4	–	0
Delaware		–		5	–	3	–	1
Rutgers		–		8	–	6	–	0
Brown		–		4	–	6	–	0
Springfield YMCA		–		5	–	8	–	1
Fordham		–		1	–	2	–	1
Syracuse		–		4	–	7	–	0
Massachusetts		–		2	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.		–		2	–	6	–	0
Lafayette		–		2	–	9	–	1
Columbia		–		1	–	5	–	0
Wesleyan		–		1	–	6	–	0

The 1891 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 13–0 record and a 488-0 season score. It was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.^[1]^[2] Yale's 1891 season was part of a 37-game winning streak that began with the final game of the 1890 season and stopped at the end of the 1893 season.

Five Yale players were selected by Caspar Whitney to the 1891 All-America college football team: halfback and team captain Lee McClung; ends Frank Hinkey and John A. Hartwell; tackle Wallace Winter; and guard Pudge Heffelfinger.^[3] Camp also selected the following Yale players to his second team: quarterback Frank Barbour; halfback Laurie Bliss; guard Samuel Morison; and center George Sanford.^[4]

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Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 28–0
October 3		at Crescent Athletic Club	Eastern Park Brooklyn, NY	W 26–0	3,000	^[5]
October 7		at Trinity (CT)	Hartford, CT	W 36–0
October 10		vs. Williams	Ridgefield Grounds Albany, NY	W 46–0		^[6]
October 14		Springfield YMCA	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 28–0	500	^[7]
October 24	3:30 p.m.	at Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval Orange, NJ	W 36–0	2,700	^[8]^[9]
October 31		Lehigh	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 38–0
November 3		Crescent Athletic Club	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 70–0	5,600	^[10]
November 7		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 76–0
November 11	2:30 p.m.	Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 27–0	350	^[11]
November 14		vs. Penn	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 48–0
November 21		vs. Harvard	Hampden Park Springfield, MA (rivalry)	W 10–0	20,000	^[12]
November 26		vs. Princeton	Manhattan Field New York, NY (rivalry)	W 19–0	40,000	^[13]
All times are in Eastern time

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Game summaries

YMCA Training School

On October 14, 1891, Yale defeated the team from the YMCA Training School by a score of 28–0 before a crowd of 500 persons at Yale Field in New Haven, Connecticut. Yale alumnus Amos Alonzo Stagg was the coach of the YMCA team and also played at the halfback position. Pudge Heffelfinger scored three touchdowns, and Lee McClung kicked three goals after touchdown. Halfback and team captain Lee McClung suffered a broken thumb in the game.^[7]

References

^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "1891 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ "2009 Yale Football Media Guide". Yale University. 2009. p. 77.
^ "Yale Defeats Crescents". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 4, 1891. p. 7. Retrieved May 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "YALE SUPERIOR TO WILLIAMS". The New York Times. October 11, 1891. p. 2. Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via nytimes.com.
^ ^a ^b "Yale Given A Hard Tussle: Capt. McClung Badly Injured in Game With Stagg's Eleven". The Boston Daily Globe. October 15, 1891. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "In The Football Field". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 25, 1891. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale Collegians Score 46 Points and Fail at Kicking Goals". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. October 25, 1891. p. 16. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Lively Kickers: How the Amateur Athletes Observed Election". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 4, 1891. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale Men Knocked Out". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1891. p. 3. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale 10, Harvard 0: And The Great Match Is Over". The Evening World. November 21, 1891. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale Still Triumphant: Princeton Beaten on Manhattan Field by a Score of 19 to 0". The Sun (New York). November 27, 1891. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.

v t e 1891 Yale Bulldogs football—national champions
Frank Barbour Anson M. Beard Laurie Bliss C. D. Bliss Ben Crosby Harmon S. Graves John A. Hartwell Pudge Heffelfinger Frank Hinkey Lee McClung Vance C. McCormick Eugene Messler Ralph Delahaye Paine William M. Richards George Sanford Alexander Hamilton Wallis Wallace Winter Head coach Walter Camp

v t e Yale Bulldogs football
Venues	Hamilton Park (1872–1883) Yale Field (1884–1914, 1916) Yale Bowl (1914–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Harvard Princeton
Culture & lore	1910 Vanderbilt game 1927 Georgia game 1968 Harvard game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank Handsome Dan "Boola Boola" Pigskin Parade Huddle
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
National championship seasons in bold

v t e College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)
1869–1879	1869: Princeton / Rutgers 1870: Princeton 1871: None 1872: Princeton 1873: Princeton 1874: Yale 1875: Harvard 1876: Yale 1877: Yale 1878: Princeton 1879: Princeton
1880s	1880: Princeton / Yale 1881: Yale 1882: Yale 1883: Yale 1884: Yale 1885: Princeton 1886: Yale 1887: Yale 1888: Yale 1889: Princeton
1890s	1890: Harvard 1891: Yale 1892: Yale 1893: Princeton 1894: Yale 1895: Penn 1896: Lafayette / Princeton 1897: Penn 1898: Harvard 1899: Harvard
1900s	1900: Yale 1901: Michigan 1902: Michigan 1903: Michigan / Princeton 1904: Michigan / Penn 1905: Chicago 1906: Princeton 1907: Yale 1908: LSU / Penn 1909: Yale
1910s	1910: Harvard / Pittsburgh 1911: Penn State / Princeton 1912: Harvard / Penn State 1913: Harvard 1914: Army 1915: Cornell 1916: Pittsburgh 1917: Georgia Tech 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh 1919: Harvard / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M
1920s	1920: California 1921: California / Cornell 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton 1923: Illinois / Michigan 1924: Notre Dame 1925: Alabama 1926: Alabama / Stanford 1927: Illinois / Yale 1928: Georgia Tech 1929: Notre Dame
1930s	1930: Alabama / Notre Dame 1931: USC 1932: USC 1933: Michigan 1934: Minnesota 1935: Minnesota

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