1898 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1898 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	9–2
Head coach	Frank Butterworth (2nd season)
Captain	Burr Chamberlain
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ← 1897 1899 →

1898 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Harvard		–		11	–	0	–	0
Drexel		–		7	–	0	–	0
Princeton		–		11	–	0	–	1
Penn		–		12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo		–		8	–	1	–	0
Cornell		–		10	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore		–		9	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		9	–	2	–	0
Yale		–		9	–	2	–	0
Dickinson		–		8	–	2	–	0
Syracuse		–		8	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan		–		7	–	3	–	0
Western Penn.		–		5	–	2	–	1
Brown		–		6	–	4	–	0
Carlisle		–		6	–	4	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh College		–		6	–	4	–	1
Army		–		3	–	2	–	1
Vermont		–		3	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross		–		5	–	4	–	1
Bucknell		–		4	–	4	–	3
Fordham		–		1	–	1	–	2
Frankin & Marshall		–		4	–	4	–	2
New Hampshire		–		4	–	4	–	0
Amherst		–		4	–	5	–	1
Villanova		–		2	–	4	–	1
Lehigh		–		3	–	6	–	1
Boston College		–		2	–	5	–	1
Colgate		–		2	–	5	–	1
Temple		–		2	–	5	–	0
Lafayette		–		3	–	8	–	0
NYU		–		1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers		–		1	–	6	–	1
Tufts		–		1	–	9	–	0
Geneva		–		0	–	6	–	1

The 1898 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1898 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 9–2 record, under second-year head coach Frank Butterworth. The team recorded seven shutouts and won its first nine games by a combined 146 to 11 score. It then lost its final two games against rivals Princeton (6–0) and Harvard (17–0).^[1]

Three Yale players, halfback Malcolm McBride and guards Burr Chamberlain and Gordon Brown, were consensus picks for the 1898 College Football All-America Team.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	3:30 p.m.	at Trinity (CT)	Trinity grounds Hartford, CT	W 18–0		^[3]^[4]
October 1		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 5–0		^[5]
October 5		Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 34–0		^[6]
October 8		Williams	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 23–0		^[7]
October 15		at Newton Athletic Association	Newton, MA	W 6–0		^[8]
October 19		Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–6		^[9]
October 22		Carlisle	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 18–5	2,500	^[10]^[11]
October 29		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 10–0	5,000	^[12]
November 5		Chicago Athletic Association	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 10–0		^[13]
November 12		at Princeton	Brokaw Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–6	16,500	^[14]
November 19		Harvard	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–17	17,500	^[15]^[16]
All times are in Eastern time

References

^ "1898 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
^ "Yale-Trinity Football Game". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. September 24, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale's First Game: The New Have Collegians Defeat Trinity 18 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). September 25, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale's Small Score". The Times (Philadelphia). October 2, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale Plays Fiercely: Puts Up a Game That Greatly Pleases Her Supporters". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 6, 1898. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale Makes Twenty-Three: And Is Nearly Scored on in the Last Half by Williams". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 9, 1898. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Narrow Escape: Yale Defeated the Newton A.A. Team, But It Was by a Narrow Margin". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 16, 1898. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Brown Scores on Yale". Chicago Tribune. October 20, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Indians Score At Yale: Hudson Drops a Wonderful Goal From The 45-Yard Line". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1898. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale, 18; Carlisle Indians, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 23, 1898. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Fall In Brilliant Defeat: West Point Beaten By Yale After a Game Struggle". Chicago Tribune. October 30, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale, 10; Chicago A.A., 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 6, 1898. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Princeton Is Victorious". The New York Times. November 13, 1898. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Harvard Supreme: Yale Lowers Her Colors to the Invincible Crimson Eleven". The Boston Globe. November 20, 1898. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Harvard Is The Victor". The New York Times. November 20, 1898. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.

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