en 1883 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1883 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1883 college football season. The team compiled a 9–0 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 540 to 2.^[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26		Wesleyan	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 58–0
September 29		at Wesleyan	Middletown, CT	W 90–0
October 6		Stevens	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 59–0		^[3]
November 6	3:20 p.m.	vs. Rutgers	Washington Park Brooklyn, NY	W 92–0	nearly 1,000	^[4]^[5]
November 14		Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute	Brooklyn, NY	W 49–0
November 17		vs. Columbia	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 93–0	400–500	^[6]
November 21		Michigan	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	W 64–0	400
November 24	2:15 p.m.	vs. Princeton	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	W 6–0	5,000–6,000	^[7]
November 29	2:37 p.m.	vs. Harvard	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	W 23–2	nearly 10,000	^[8]

Rushers: Samuel Reading Bertron (4), Howard H. Knapp, F. G. Peters (4), Ray Tompkins, A. L. Farwell (4), Williams (4), Louis K. Hull, W. P. McCrorey
Quarterback: Henry Twombly (4)
Halfbacks: Wyllys Terry, Eugene Lamb Richards
Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon

^ ^a ^b "1883 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
^ "Yale vs. Stevens Institute". The Harvard Crimson. October 12, 1883.
^ "The Yale-Rutgers Football Game". Morning Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. November 7, 1883. p. 3. Retrieved August 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale Easily Defeats Rutgers". New York Tribune. November 7, 1883. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Two Games of Football". The Sun. November 18, 1883. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale Beats Princeton". The Sun. November 25, 1883. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale Again Victorious". New York Tribune. November 30, 1883. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.