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1890 Yale Bulldogs football team

1890 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference Independent
1890 record 13–1
Head coach Walter Camp (3rd year)
Seasons
← 1889
1891 →
1890 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Harvard         11 0 0
Yale         13 1 0
California         4 0 0
Virginia         5 2 0
Cornell         8 4 0
Michigan         4 1 0
Dartmouth         4 4 0
Washington         0 0 1
Columbia         1 5 1
Colorado         0 4 0

The 1890 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1890 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 13–1 record under third-year head coach Walter Camp, who became known as the "Father of American Football". The 1890 team recorded 12 shutouts and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 486 to 18. Its only loss was to rival Harvard by a 12–6 score.

Three Yale players (halfback Thomas McClung, guard Pudge Heffelfinger, and tackle William Rhodes) were consensus picks for the 1890 College Football All-America Team. All three have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame


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