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1897 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1897 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–2
Head coach
CaptainJames O. Rodgers
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1896
1898 →
1897 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     15 0 0
Princeton     10 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     10 1 0
Yale     9 0 2
Buffalo     9 1 0
Harvard     10 1 1
Army     6 1 1
Vermont     3 0 2
Lafayette     9 2 1
Drexel     6 2 1
Colgate     5 2 1
Dickinson     7 3 2
Swarthmore     7 3 2
Fordham     2 1 1
Cornell     5 3 1
Syracuse     5 3 1
Brown     7 4 0
Carlisle     6 4 0
Boston College     4 3 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Bucknell     3 3 1
NYU     3 3 0
Temple     3 3 0
Trinity (CT)     4 4 1
Wesleyan     6 6 0
Tufts     6 7 0
Geneva     3 4 1
Pittsburgh College     3 5 2
Villanova     3 5 1
Penn State     3 6 0
Amherst     2 6 2
Frankin & Marshall     2 6 2
Lehigh     3 7 0
New Hampshire     2 5 0
Rutgers     2 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 3 0

The 1897 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–2 record, shut out seven of eleven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 170 to 35.[1] Frank Butterworth was the head coach.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1895 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2] Most selectors designated Penn (perfect 15–0 record) as the national champion for 1897; Yale and Penn did not play during the 1897 season.

Four Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1897 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Charles de Saulles; end John A. Hall; guard Gordon Brown; and tackle Burr Chamberlain.[3] Other notable players included halfback Charles T. Dudley, fullback Malcolm McBride, center George Cadwalader, guard Charles Chadwick, and tackle James O. Rodgers.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29at Trinity (CT)
W 10–0800[4]
October 2WesleyanW 30–0[5]
October 6Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0[6]
October 9Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 32–0[7]
October 16at Newton Athletic AssociationNewton, MAW 10–0[8]
October 20Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–142,000[9]
October 23vs. CarlisleW 24–99,000–13,000[10][11]
October 30at ArmyT 6–6[12]
November 6Chicago Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–6[13]
November 13at HarvardT 0–025,000[14]
November 20Princeton
W 6–018,000[15]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "1897 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. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ ""Not So Warm" Just Yet: Yale Scores Only 10 Against Trinity and U. of P. is Scored on at Home". The boston Globe. September 30, 1897. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.}
  5. ^ "Yale 30, Wesleyan 0". The Boston Globe. October 3, 1897. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale Is Encouraged". The Boston Globe. October 7, 1897. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale 32, Williams 0". The Boston Globe. October 10, 1897. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yale Defeats Newton A.A." The Boston Globe. October 17, 1897. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "On The Football Field". The Meridien Daily Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. October 21, 1897. p. 7. Retrieved March 11, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ^ "Nine Points Scored Against Old Eli". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. October 24, 1897. p. 8. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ "Yale Beats the Indians". The New York Times. October 24, 1897. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Yale Humiliated BY: Yale Is Outplayed at Every Point". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 31, 1897. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Score Against Yale: C.A.A. Eleven Plays a Plucky Game at New Haven". Chicago Tribune. November 7, 1897. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Langdon Smith (November 14, 1897). "Harvard and Yale Tie: Neither Side Able to Score a Point During 70 Minutes of Fierce Play". The Boston Globe. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  15. ^ "Great Victory for Yale: She Plays a Brilliant Game, Defeating Princeton with a Score of 6 to 0". The New York Times. November 21, 1897. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.