1884 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1884 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1884 college football season. The team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 495 to 10.^[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[2]

1884 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Helms, NCF) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Independent
Record	8–0–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Eugene Lamb Richards
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ← 1883 1885 →

1884 college football records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					9	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					8	–	0	–	1
Michigan			–					2	–	0	–	0
Williams			–					2	–	0	–	0
Navy			–					1	–	0	–	0
Wabash			–					1	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					5	–	1	–	1
Fordham			–					5	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					7	–	4	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	2	–	0
Butler			–					1	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	4	–	0
Stevens			–					4	–	5	–	0
Dartmouth			–					1	–	2	–	1
Tufts			–					2	–	4	–	1
Massachusetts			–					1	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	5	–	0
Johns Hopkins			–					1	–	3	–	0
Albion			–					0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	0
Denver			–					0	–	1	–	0
DePauw			–					0	–	1	–	0
Olivet			–					0	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					0	–	3	–	0
Lehigh			–					0	–	4	–	0

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 1		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 31–0		[3]
October 11		Stevens	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 96–0
October 18	3:00 p.m.	vs. Wesleyan	Ward Street Grounds Hartford, CT	W 63–0		[4]
October 22		at Rutgers	New Brunswick, NJ	W 76–10		[5]
October 25		at Dartmouth	Hanover, NH	W 113–0		[6]
November 5		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 46–0		[7]
November 19		vs. Yale alumni	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 20–0		[8]
November 22		Harvard	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 52–0	2,400	[9]
November 27		vs. Princeton	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	T 0–0	over 10,000	[10]
Source: [1]

Roster

• Rushers: Frederick W. Wallace, Samuel Reading Bertron, Robert N. Corwin, Henry R. Flanders, Frank G. Peters, Alexander B. Coxe, Reginald Ronalds, W. B. Goodwin, Sheffield, Lucius F. Robinson, R. S. Storrs, Oliver Gould Jennings
• Quarterback: T. L. Bayne
• Halfbacks: Eugene Lamb Richards, Wyllys Terry
• Fullbacks: Mahlon H. Marlin, George H. Young

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