1907 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1907 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 10.[1] William F. Knox was the head coach, and Lucius Horatio Bigelow was the team captain.

1907 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–1
Head coach
CaptainLucius Horatio Bigelow
Home stadiumYale Field
1907 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale   –  9 –0 –1
Dartmouth   –  8 –0 –1
Penn   –  11 –1 –0
Carlisle   –  10 –1 –0
Temple   –  4 –0 –2
Fordham   –  6 –1 –1
Cornell   –  8 –2 –0
Western U. of Penn.   –  8 –2 –0
Princeton   –  7 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –  7 –2 –0
Lafayette   –  7 –2 –1
Lehigh   –  7 –2 –1
Swarthmore   –  6 –2 –0
Army   –  6 –2 –1
NYU   –  5 –2 –0
Vermont   –  4 –1 –2
Harvard   –  7 –3 –0
Brown   –  7 –3 –0
Penn State   –  6 –4 –0
Syracuse   –  5 –3 –1
Drexel   –  3 –2 –2
Colgate   –  4 –4 –1
Geneva   –  4 –5 –2
Amherst   –  3 –4 –1
Tufts   –  3 –4 –1
Frankin & Marshall   –  4 –6 –0
Rutgers   –  3 –5 –1
Springfield Training School   –  2 –4 –2
Bucknell   –  4 –7 –0
New Hampshire   –  1 –5 –2
Villanova   –  1 –5 –1
Holy Cross   –  1 –7 –2
Wesleyan   –  1 –7 –1
Carnegie Tech   –  1 –8 –0

There was no contemporaneous system in 1907 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Caspar Whitney, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, the National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[2]

Four Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1907 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Tad Jones; fullback Ted Coy; end Clarence Alcott; and tackle Lucius Horatio Biglow.[3]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2Wesleyan
W 25–0[4]
October 5Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–0[5]
October 9Springfield Training School
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0[6][7]
October 12Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 52–0[8]
October 19at Army
T 0–010,000[9]
October 26Villanova
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 45–0[10]
November 2Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 11–0[11]
November 9Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0[12]
November 16Princeton
W 12–1034,000[13]
November 23at Harvard
W 12–040,000[14]

[1]

References
  1. "1907 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. "Yale Beats Wesleyan". New York Tribune. October 3, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Yale Forced To Limit: Syracuse Fights Hard". New York Tribune. October 6, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Yale Eleven Defeats Springfield 18 To 0". Journal Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 10, 1907. p. 9. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "Springfield Team Easy for Yale Men". The New York Times. October 10, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Yale Has Easy Time Against Holy Cross". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 13, 1907. p. S2 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Cadets Surprised Yale at Football". The New York Times. October 20, 1907. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Yale 45, Villanova 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved November 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  11. "Yale's Hard Task: New Haven Finds It Difficult to Beat Washington and Jefferson". The New York Times. November 3, 1907. p. 30 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Yale Outplays Brown: Scores Four Times". New York Tribune. November 10, 1907. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "The Yale-Princeton Game at New Haven: Yale's Football Triumph". New York Tribune. November 17, 1907. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Yale's Greatest Football Season Closes with a Victory Over Harvard at Cambridge Yesterday: Yale Vanquishes Harvard, 12 to 0". The New York Times. November 24, 1907. pp. 29, 30 – via Newspapers.com.
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