1907 Yale Bulldogs football team

1907 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–1
Head coach
CaptainLucius Horatio Bigelow
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1906
1908 →
1907 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     9 0 1
Dartmouth     8 0 1
Penn     11 1 0
Carlisle     10 1 0
Temple     4 0 2
Fordham     6 1 1
Cornell     8 2 0
Western U. of Penn.     8 2 0
Princeton     7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 1
Lehigh     7 2 1
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Army     6 2 1
NYU     5 2 0
Vermont     4 1 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Brown     7 3 0
Penn State     6 4 0
Syracuse     5 3 1
Drexel     3 2 2
Colgate     4 4 1
Geneva     4 5 2
Amherst     3 4 1
Tufts     3 4 1
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 0
Rutgers     3 5 1
Springfield Training School     2 4 2
Bucknell     4 7 0
New Hampshire     1 5 2
Villanova     1 5 1
Holy Cross     1 7 2
Wesleyan     1 7 1
Carnegie Tech     1 8 0

The 1907 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 10.[1] William F. Knox was the head coach, and Lucius Horatio Bigelow was the team captain.

Yale was ranked first in the nation by Caspar Whitney in January 1908.[2] The team was additionally later retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, the National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[3]

Four Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1907 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Tad Jones; fullback Ted Coy; end Clarence Alcott; and tackle Lucius Horatio Biglow.[4]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2WesleyanW 25–0[5]
October 5Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–0[6]
October 9Springfield Training School
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0[7][8]
October 12Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 52–0[9]
October 19at ArmyT 0–010,000[10]
October 26Villanova
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 45–0[11]
November 2Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–0[12]
November 9Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0[13]
November 16Princeton
W 12–1034,000[14]
November 23at HarvardW 12–040,000[15]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "1907 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Whitney, Caspar (January 1908). Whitney, Caspar (ed.). "The View-Point: Team Ranking 1907". The Outing Magazine. Vol. LI, no. 4. Outing Publishing Company. pp. 495–498, 514–516. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
  3. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  4. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  5. ^ "Yale Beats Wesleyan". New York Tribune. October 3, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale Forced To Limit: Syracuse Fights Hard". New York Tribune. October 6, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale Eleven Defeats Springfield 18 To 0". Journal Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 10, 1907. p. 9. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Springfield Team Easy for Yale Men". The New York Times. October 10, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale Has Easy Time Against Holy Cross". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 13, 1907. p. S2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Cadets Surprised Yale at Football". The New York Times. October 20, 1907. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Yale 45, Villanova 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved November 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ^ "Yale's Hard Task: New Haven Finds It Difficult to Beat Washington and Jefferson". The New York Times. November 3, 1907. p. 30 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Yale Outplays Brown: Scores Four Times". New York Tribune. November 10, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "The Yale-Princeton Game at New Haven: Yale's Football Triumph". New York Tribune. November 17, 1907. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Yale's Greatest Football Season Closes with a Victory Over Harvard at Cambridge Yesterday: Yale Vanquishes Harvard, 12 to 0". The New York Times. November 24, 1907. pp. 29, 30 – via Newspapers.com.