1912 Yale Bulldogs football team

1912 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
CaptainJesse Spalding
Home stadiumYale Field
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   8 – 0 – 0
Carlisle   –   12 – 1 – 1
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 1
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 1
  –   7 – 1 – 1
Lehigh   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   7 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 3 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   6 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 4 – 0
Army   –   5 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –   5 – 4 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   3 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   4 – 5 – 1
Syracuse   –   4 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 4 – 1
New Hampshire   –   3 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   3 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 6 – 0
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 1
Cornell   –   3 – 7 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 6 – 0

The 1912 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1912 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 7–1–1 record under first-year head coach Art Howe. The team's only loss was to Harvard by a 20–0 score in the final game of the season.[1] Yale end Douglas Bomeisler and center Hank Ketcham were consensus picks for the 1912 College Football All-America Team, and two other Yale players (guards Russell Cooney and John Pendleton) received first-team All-America honors from at least one selector. Guard Ted York died following the Army game.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25WesleyanW 10–3[3]
September 28Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–02,000[4]
October 5Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–0
October 12Lafayette
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0[5]
October 19at ArmyW 6–015,000[6]
October 26Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 13–3[7]
November 9Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 10–0[8]
November 16at PrincetonT 6–6
November 23Harvard
L 0–20[9]

Roster

  • Lynn J. Arnold, G
  • Benjamin F. Avery, E
  • Richard W. Baker, HB
  • Thomas L. Bayne
  • Douglas Bomeisler, E
  • Walter C. Camp, FB
  • Lyon Carter, E
  • Castles, FB
  • Russell S. Cooney, G
  • Thomas H. Cornell, QB
  • Cornish, QB
  • David L. Dunn
  • Samuel A. Dyer, QB
  • Maurice Bennett Flynn, FB
  • Carl Gallauer, E
  • Green, G
  • Harbison, T
  • William F. Howe
  • Hank Ketcham, C
  • Francis J. Loftus
  • Donald Markle, HB
  • Henry A. Marting
  • Mitchell, QB
  • Osborn, E
  • John S. Pendleton, T
  • Jesse H. Philbin, HB
  • Harold A. Pumpelly, FB
  • Randall, G
  • Norman H. Read, G
  • Ogilvie H. Sheldon, E
  • Jesse Spalding, HB
  • Bud Talbott, T
  • H. Warren, T
  • William C. Warren, T
  • Nathaniel Wheeler, E
  • Theodore York, G

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References

  1. ^ "1912 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Dead from injuries in Yale-Army Game" (PDF). The New York Times. New Haven. October 31, 1912.
  3. ^ "Wesleyan Scores on Yale First Time in 24 Years". Meriden Morning Record. September 26, 1912. p. 2.
  4. ^ "Yale Finds Holy Cross Worthy Foe". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. September 29, 1912. Sporting section, p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Line Plunging Wins Game for Yale Team". The Gazette Times. October 13, 1912. p. 4.
  6. ^ "Yale Too Strong For Army Eleven". New York Tribune. October 20, 1912. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale Triumphs Over the Wash-Jeff Eleven". The Gazette Times. October 27, 1912. p. 2.
  8. ^ "Brown Played Grand Game but Went Down to Defeat, Fighting Desperately, 10-0". Evening Tribune. November 10, 1912. p. 12.
  9. ^ "Harvard is Now Football Leader". The Sunday Morning Star. November 24, 1912.
  10. ^ "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved February 2, 2025.