1904 Yale Bulldogs football team

1904 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1
Head coach
CaptainJames Hogan
Home stadiumYale Field
1904 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   10 – 0 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 0 – 1
  –   10 – 1 – 0
Amherst   –   9 – 1 – 0
Colgate   –   8 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Army   –   7 – 2 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   7 – 2 – 1
Dickinson   –   8 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   7 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   3 – 3 – 0
Springfield Training School   –   4 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   3 – 6 – 0
Holy Cross   –   2 – 5 – 2
Wesleyan   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva   –   1 – 4 – 2
Vermont   –   1 – 5 – 2
New Hampshire   –   2 – 5 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 2
Tufts   –   2 – 9 – 1
Lehigh   –   1 – 8 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   0 – 10 – 0

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]

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[3]
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[4][5]
October 15 Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 17–9[6]
October 22at Army West Point, NYL 6–11[7]
October 29at ColumbiaW 34–0[8]
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[9]

Roster

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References

  1. ^ "1904 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. ^ "Eli Eleven Made Several Blunders". The Day. September 29, 1904. p. 2.
  4. ^ "Close Call For Yale". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 13, 1904. p. 2. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Holds Yale To 6-0 Score". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 13, 1904. p. 8. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "The Football Scores". The Troy Northern Budget. October 16, 1904. p. 2.
  7. ^ "Yale Meets Defeat". The Troy Northern Budget. October 23, 1904. p. 2.
  8. ^ "Columbia Overwhelmed By The Yale Eleven". The New York Times. October 30, 1904. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Harvard-Yale Football Game". Easton Free Press. November 19, 1904. p. 1.
  10. ^ "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.