1904 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1904 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1904 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 10–1 record under first-year head coach Charles D. Rafferty. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 220 to 20 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Army.[1]

1904 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1
Head coach
CaptainJames Hogan
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1903
1905 →
1904 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn  1200
Western U. of Penn.  1000
Dartmouth  701
Yale  1010
Amherst  910
Colgate  811
Carlisle  1020
Lafayette  820
Princeton  820
Army  720
Fordham  411
Harvard  721
Dickinson  831
Columbia  730
Cornell  730
Villanova  421
Syracuse  630
Swarthmore  630
Washington & Jefferson  531
Penn State  640
Temple  320
Brown  650
Bucknell  330
Springfield Training School  441
NYU  360
Holy Cross  252
Wesleyan  370
Geneva  142
Vermont  152
New Hampshire  250
Rutgers  162
Tufts  291
Lehigh  180
Frankin & Marshall  0100

Four Yale players (quarterback Foster Rockwell, end Tom Shevlin, tackle James Hogan, and guard Ralph Kinney) were consensus picks for the 1904 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 WesleyanW 22–0
October 1 Trinity (CT)
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 42–0
October 5 Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0
October 8 Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 24–0
October 12 Springfield Training School
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 6–0100[3][4]
October 15 Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 17–9
October 22at Army West Point, NYL 6–11
October 29at ColumbiaW 34–0[5]
November 5 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0
November 12at Princeton Princeton, NJ (rivalry)W 12–0
November 19 Harvard
W 12–0

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