1902 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1902 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0–1 record, shut out eight of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 286 to 22.[1] Joseph R. Swan was the head coach, and George B. Chadwick was the team captain.

1902 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–0–1
Head coach
CaptainGeorge B. Chadwick
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1901
1903 →
1902 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Ursinus  900
Yale  1101
Geneva  700
Harvard  1110
Princeton  810
Army  611
Frankin & Marshall  720
Dartmouth  621
Holy Cross  621
Syracuse  621
Carlisle  830
Cornell  830
Lafayette  830
Amherst  730
Penn State  730
Penn  940
Lehigh  731
Vermont  532
Colgate  531
NYU  530
Bucknell  640
Washington & Jefferson  640
Columbia  641
Springfield Training School  321
Villanova  430
Brown  541
Swarthmore  660
Western U. of Penn.  561
New Hampshire  231
Buffalo  351
Tufts  461
Fordham  241
Wesleyan  361
Rutgers  370
Navy  271
Drexel  141
Temple  141
Pittsburgh College  160
Boston College  080

Yale was selected as the 1902 champion in the 1903 edition of the World Almanac.[2]

In the absence of any recognized Intercollegiate Football Association the championship cannot always be unerringly fixed; but in 1902 there is no difficulty in allotting the honor to Yale, inasmuch as she won every one of her games.

— The World Almanac and Encyclopedia (1903)

In 1933 Yale was retroactively named as the national co-champion, along with Michigan, by NCAA-designated "major selector" Parke H. Davis.[3]

Seven Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1902 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Foster Rockwell; halfback George B. Chadwick; end Tom Shevlin; center Henry Holt; guard Edward Glass; and tackles Ralph Kinney and James Hogan.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Trinity (CT)W 40–0[5]
October 1Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–6[6]
October 4Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0[7]
October 8Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 35–0[8]
October 11at Brown
W 10–0[9]
October 15Vermont
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 32–0[10]
October 18Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–0[11]
October 25Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 24–0[12]
November 1at ArmyT 6–6[13]
November 8Bucknell
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–56,000[14]
November 15at PrincetonW 12–520,000[15]
November 22Harvard
W 23–030,000[16]

[1]

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