1911 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1911 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1911 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 7–2–1 record under first-year head coach John Field.[1]

1911 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2–1
Head coach
CaptainArt Howe
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1910
1912 →
1911 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn State  801
Carlisle  1110
Princeton  802
Trinity (CT)  602
Temple  610
Army  611
Swarthmore  611
Dartmouth  820
Lafayette  820
Yale  721
Harvard  621
Cornell  730
Rhode Island State  521
Brown  731
Bucknell  631
Penn  740
Pittsburgh  431
Washington & Jefferson  640
Syracuse  532
Dickinson  440
Lehigh  551
Rutgers  441
Dickinson  440
St. Bonaventure  220
Carnegie Tech  450
Holy Cross  450
Tufts  340
Vermont  350
NYU  133
Colgate  360
Franklin & Marshall  360
Geneva  161
Villanova  051
Boston College  070

Three Yale players, end Douglas Bomeisler, center Hank Ketcham and quarterback Art Howe, were consensus picks for the 1911 College Football All-America Team. Walter Camp's son, Walter C. Camp, Jr., played at the halfback position for the 1911 Bulldogs and received second-team All-America honors from his father and from Wilton S. Farnsworth.[2][3] Yale fullback Jesse Philbin also received first-team All-America honors from Farnsworth.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 WesleyanW 21–0
September 30 Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 26–0
October 7 Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–0
October 14 VPI
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 33–0
October 21at ArmyL 0–6
October 28 Colgate
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0
November 4 NYU
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–3
November 11 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 15–0
November 18 Princeton
L 3–635,000[4][5]
November 25at Harvard T 0–0

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