1908 Yale Bulldogs football team

1908 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
CaptainRobert Burch
Home stadiumYale Field
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   11 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 1
Cornell   –   7 – 1 – 1
Fordham   –   5 – 1 – 0
  –   7 – 1 – 1
Dartmouth   –   6 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   10 – 2 – 1
Army   –   6 – 1 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 2
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 3
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   4 – 3 – 0
Lehigh   –   4 – 3 – 0
Dickinson   –   5 – 4 – 0
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 2
Holy Cross   –   4 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 3 – 3
Wesleyan   –   3 – 4 – 2
Springfield Training School   –   3 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 3 – 2
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 6 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 5 – 2
Rutgers   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva   –   1 – 6 – 2
Tufts   –   1 – 6 – 1
Villanova   –   1 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   1 – 7 – 0
Drexel   –   0 – 7 – 0

The 1908 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1908 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 7–1–1 record under first-year head coach Lucius Horatio Biglow.[1]

Three Yale players, fullback Ted Coy and guards Hamlin Andrus and William Goebel, were consensus picks for the 1908 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30 WesleyanW 16–0[2]
October 3 Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 5–0[3]
October 10 Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–0
October 17at ArmyW 6–0[4]
October 24 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 38–0
October 31 Massachusetts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 49–0
November 7 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
T 10–10[5]
November 14at Princeton W 11–6[6]
November 21 Harvard
L 0–4[7]

Roster

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References

  1. ^ "1908 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Yale's 16 Wesleyan 0". Meriden Morning Record. October 1, 1908. p. 2.
  3. ^ "Brown Won From Colgate By A 6-0 Score". Evening Tribune. October 4, 1908. p. 6.
  4. ^ "Licky Penalty Gives Blue Chance to Score". The Day. October 19, 1908. p. 10.
  5. ^ "Plucky Brown Holds Old Eli Down 10 to 10; Russell M'Kay, Rayen Man, is Star of Game". The Sunday Vindicator. November 8, 1908. p. 9.
  6. ^ "Yale Beats the Tigers; Sons of Old Eli Win Annual Football Battle". The Troy Northern Budget. November 15, 1908. p. 2.
  7. ^ Melville E. Webb Jr. (November 22, 1908). "Crimson Triumphs: Yale Outplayed and Beaten, 4 to 0; Kennard Gets Field Goal Late in First Half". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.