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
1911 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn State    8 0 1
Carlisle    11 1 0
Princeton    8 0 2
Trinity (CT)    6 0 2
Temple    6 1 0
Army    6 1 1
Swarthmore    6 1 1
Dartmouth    8 2 0
Lafayette    8 2 0
Yale    7 2 1
Harvard    6 2 1
Cornell    7 3 0
Rhode Island State    5 2 1
Brown    7 3 1
Bucknell    6 3 1
Penn    7 4 0
Pittsburgh    4 3 1
Washington & Jefferson    6 4 0
Syracuse    5 3 2
Dickinson    4 4 0
Lehigh    5 5 1
Rutgers    4 4 1
Dickinson    4 4 0
St. Bonaventure    2 2 0
Carnegie Tech    4 5 0
Holy Cross    4 5 0
Tufts    3 4 0
Vermont    3 5 0
NYU    1 3 3
Colgate    3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall    3 6 0
Geneva    1 6 1
Villanova    0 5 1
Boston College    0 7 0

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

References

  1. "1911 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Walter Camp Picks All-American Team: Unquestioned Football Authority of Country Selects Best Men". The Lexington Herald. December 10, 1911.
  3. "Latest Sporting News All-American Football Team Selected by W. S. Farnsworth". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. December 10, 1911.
  4. "Princeton Wins on Yale Field: Sam White Again the Hero of an Orange and Black Victory". The New York Times. November 19, 1911. p. 25 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Princeton Beats Yale By White's Run". New York Tribune. November 19, 1911. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
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