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1884 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Helms, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainEugene Lamb Richards
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1883
1885 →
1884 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   8 – 0 – 1
Michigan   –   2 – 0 – 0
Williams   –   2 – 0 – 0
Navy   –   1 – 0 – 0
Wabash   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   5 – 1 – 1
Fordham   –   5 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   7 – 4 – 0
Wesleyan   –   3 – 2 – 0
Butler   –   1 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 1 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
Stevens   –   4 – 5 – 0
Dartmouth   –   1 – 2 – 1
Tufts   –   2 – 4 – 1
Massachusetts   –   1 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   2 – 5 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   1 – 3 – 0
Albion   –   0 – 1 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 1 – 0
Denver   –   0 – 1 – 0
DePauw   –   0 – 1 – 0
Olivet   –   0 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   0 – 3 – 0
Lehigh   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1884 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1884 college football season. The team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 495 to 10.[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1Wesleyan
W 31–0[3]
October 11Stevens
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 96–0
October 183:00 p.m.vs. Wesleyan
W 63–0[4]
October 22at RutgersNew Brunswick, NJW 76–10[5]
October 25at DartmouthHanover, NHW 113–0[6]
November 5Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0[7]
November 19vs. Yale alumni
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–0[8]
November 22Harvard
W 52–02,400[9]
November 27vs. Princeton
T 0–0over 10,000[10]

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Roster

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References

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  1. ^ a b "1884 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Yale Easily Defeats Wesleyan". New York, NY: New-York tribune. October 2, 1884. p. 8. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  4. ^ Football ad - Newspapers.com
  5. ^ "College Football Games". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 23, 1884. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Saturday's Foot Ball Games". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 27, 1884. p. 1. Retrieved March 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Yale Beats Wesleyan". New Haven, Connecticut: Morning journal and courier. November 6, 1884. p. 2. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  8. ^ "Yale News". New Haven, Connecticut: Morning journal and courier. November 20, 1884. p. 4. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  9. ^ "The Harvards Badly Beaten: The Yale Football Team Whip Them by a Score of 52 to 0". The New York Times. November 23, 1884. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Hard Work and No Glory: The Princeton-Yale Football Game Declared Drawn". The New York Times. November 28, 1884. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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