American college football season
The 1916 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1916 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Tad Jones. The team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 182 to 44 and suffered its only loss to Brown.[1] Yale guard Clinton Black was a consensus pick for the 1916 College Football All-America Team, and four other Yale players (ends Charles Comerford and George Moseley, halfback Harry LeGore, and a guard with the surname Fox) also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector in 1916. Black was the team's captain.[2]
- ^ "1916 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ^ "Cupid Black Chosen Yale Football Captain for 1916". The Day (Afternoon ed.): 12. December 1, 1915.
- ^ "Yale Opens Season by Beating Carnegie Tech". The Hartford Courant. October 1, 1916. p. 33 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Yale Crushes Virginia Beneath 61 to 3 Defeat". The Hartford Courant. October 8, 1916. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Harry Legore's Sensational Playing Features Yale Victory Over Lehigh". The Hartford Courant. October 15, 1916. p. Z3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Yale Substitutes Win From Virginia, 20 to 0". The Harford Courant. October 21, 1916. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Yale's Rush Line Shows Much Power: Washington and Jefferson Beaten by 36 to 14". The Boston Globe. October 29, 1916. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Yale Defeats Colgate 7 to 3". Boston Post. November 5, 1916. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Pollard, Brown's Wonderful Halfback, Shines Brightly in Brown's Second Conquest of Bulldog". The Hartford Courant. November 12, 1916. p. Z3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Battered Yale Sweeps Tigers To Dire Defeat". The New York Times. November 19, 1916. p. VIII-1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Harvard Falls Before Fierce Rush of Yale". The New York Times. November 26, 1916. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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