*** Welcome to piglix ***

1889 Yale Bulldogs football team

1889 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference Independent
1889 record 15–1
Head coach Walter Camp (2nd year)
Captain Charles O. Gill
Seasons
← 1888
1890 →
1889 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Princeton         10 0 0
Yale         15 1 0
Harvard         9 2 0
Virginia         4 2 0
USC         2 0 0
Notre Dame         1 0 0
North Carolina         1 1 0
Washington         0 1 0
Michigan         1 2 0
Columbia         2 7 2

The 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1889 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 15–1 record under second-year head coach Walter Camp. Camp became known as the "Father of American Football". The 1890 Yale team recorded 12 shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 661 to 31. Its only loss was in the final game of the season against rival Princeton by a 10–0 score.

Three Yale players (end Amos Alonzo Stagg, guard Pudge Heffelfinger and tackle Charles O. Gill) were named to the 1889 College Football All-America Team, the first college football All-America team as selected by Caspar Whitney. Stagg and Heffelfinger have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.


...
Wikipedia

...