1903 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1903 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach George B. Chadwick. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 206 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Princeton.[1]

1903 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Field
1903 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton   –  11 –0 –0
Yale   –  11 –1 –0
Columbia   –  9 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –  9 –1 –0
Geneva   –  9 –1 –0
Holy Cross   –  8 –2 –0
Temple   –  4 –1 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –  8 –2 –0
Lehigh   –  9 –2 –1
Harvard   –  9 –3 –0
Penn   –  9 –3 –0
Army   –  6 –2 –1
Carlisle   –  6 –2 –1
Amherst   –  7 –3 –0
Lafayette   –  7 –3 –0
Cornell   –  6 –3 –1
Colgate   –  4 –2 –1
Penn State   –  5 –3 –0
Swarthmore   –  6 –4 –0
Brown   –  5 –4 –1
Syracuse   –  5 –4 –0
Fordham   –  1 –1 –0
Frankin & Marshall   –  5 –5 –1
Buffalo   –  4 –4 –0
Rutgers   –  4 –4 –1
Delaware   –  4 –4 –0
Villanova   –  2 –2 –0
Bucknell   –  4 –5 –0
Vermont   –  4 –5 –0
Tufts   –  5 –8 –0
Wesleyan   –  3 –6 –1
Springfield Training School   –  1 –3 –1
NYU   –  2 –5 –0
New Hampshire   –  2 –6 –1
Pittsburgh College   –  1 –5 –1
Western U. Penn.   –  1 –8 –1

Four Yale players (fullback Ledyard Mitchell, end Charles D. Rafferty, tackle James Hogan and guard James Bloomer) were consensus picks for the 1903 College Football All-America Team.[2] Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick,[3] and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the San Antonio Daily Light.[4]

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26Trinity (CT)
W 35–0
September 30Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
October 3Vermont
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0[5]
October 7Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 33–0
October 10Springfield Training School
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0[6]
October 14Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–10[7]
October 17Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–0
October 24at Army
W 17–5
October 31at Columbia
W 25–0[8]
November 7Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 30–0
November 14Princeton
L 6–1130,000[9][10]
November 212:00 p.m.at Harvard
W 16–037,000[11][12][13][14][15][16]

References
  1. "1903 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. "Crack Football Eleven". Los Angeles Times. November 30, 1903.
  4. "The Ideal All-American Team". San Antonio Daily Light. December 14, 1903.
  5. "Yale 46, Vermont 0". The New York Times. October 4, 1903. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Gave Yale A Battle". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 1903. p. 10. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "Holy Cross surprises Yale". Journal and Courier. October 15, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Yale's football victory". The New York Times. November 1, 1903. p. 13. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Princeton Wins Big Football Game: Yale Beaten at New Haven in Grand Contest by 11 to 6". The New York Times. November 15, 1903. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Princeton, Rah! Yale Swallows An 11-6 Defeat On Home Ground Before Ancient Rival". The Sun. New York, N.Y. November 15, 1903. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. Webb, Melville E., Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. Webb, Melville E., Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 7. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. Webb, Melville E., Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 8. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. Webb, Melville E., Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard Fight Hard But Yale Wins 16-0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. Webb, Melville E., Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Yale Wins 16-0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. Webb, Melville E., Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Yale Wins 16-0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 9. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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