1901 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1901 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach George S. Stillman, the team compiled an 11–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 251 to 37.^[1]

1901 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	11–1–1
Head coach	George S. Stillman (1st season)
Captain	John de Saulles
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ← 1900 1902 →

1901 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					12	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					11	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					10	–	1	–	0
Massachusetts			–					9	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					9	–	1	–	1
Syracuse			–					7	–	1	–	0
Holy Cross			–					7	–	1	–	1
Geneva			–					6	–	1	–	1
Army			–					5	–	1	–	2
Western U. of Penn			–					7	–	2	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					8	–	2	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	2	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					7	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					10	–	5	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					8	–	5	–	0
Fordham			–					2	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
NYU			–					4	–	3	–	1
Tufts			–					6	–	6	–	1
Vermont			–					5	–	5	–	1
Dickinson			–					3	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					5	–	7	–	1
Brown			–					4	–	7	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	0
Boston College			–					1	–	8	–	0
Lehigh			–					1	–	11	–	0
New Hampshire			–					0	–	6	–	0
Rutgers			–					0	–	7	–	0

A modern authority on college football rankings said,"When Harvard met Yale at season's end, it was considered to be for the national championship, and if there had been an AP poll in 1901, Yale might well have finished #2. That is because they were considered to be the top program in college football."^[2] Years later, Harvard was retrospectively selected as the national champion by Parke H. Davis,^[3][4][5] a fact in conflict with an NCAA publication, which mentions Yale.^[6]

Center Henry Holt was selected by Walter Camp as the first team center on the 1901 All-America team.^[7] Other notable players on the 1901 Yale team included halfback George B. Chadwick, quarterback John de Saulles, end Joseph R. Swan, tackle James Hogan, and guard Herman Olcott.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	Trinity (CT)	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 23–0		[8]
October 2	Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 6–0		[9]
October 5	Tufts	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 29–5		[10]
October 9	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 24–0		[11]
October 12	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 24–0		[12]
October 16	Bowdoin	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 45–0		[13]
October 19	Penn State	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–0		[14]
October 22	Bates	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 21–0	12,000	[15]
October 26	Columbia	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 10–5		[16]
November 2	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	T 5–5		[17]
November 9	Orange Athletic Club	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 35–0		[18]
November 16	Princeton	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 12–0	> 19,000	[19]
November 23	at Harvard	Soldier's Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 0–22		[20]

References

1. "1901 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
2. Vautravers, James. "1901 College Football National Championship". Retrieved September 23, 2019.
3. Parke Davis' selection for 1901, as published in Spalding's Foot Ball Guide (to which he was a contributor until his death) in 1934 and 1935, was Harvard.
4. Okeson, Walter R., ed. (1934). Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1934. New York: American Sports Publishing Co. p. 206.
5. Okeson, Walter R., ed. (1935). Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1935. New York: American Sports Publishing Co. p. 233.
6. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
7. "All-America Team of 1901". Spalding's Football Guide: 47. 1902. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Google books.
8. "Yale, 23; Trinity, 0: Yale's Giant Rush Line Does Great Work". New York Daily Tribune. September 29, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Football: Yale Has A Hard Struggle To Win From Amherst". New York Daily Tribune. October 3, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Yale, 29; Tufts, 5: Substitute's Fumble Allows Visitors To Score". New York Daily Tribune. October 6, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Yale, 24; Wesleyan, 0". New York Daily Tribune. October 10, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Yale, 24; Annapolis, 0". The New York Times. October 13, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Yale, 45; Bowdoin, 0". New York Daily Tribune. October 17, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Yale, 22; Penn State, 0: Hardest Game of the Season For Old Eli Thus Far". New York Daily Tribune. October 20, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "In The Football World: Yale's Old Star Players Beat the 'Varsity Scrub Team; Walter Camp Kicked Off". The New York Times. October 23, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Columbia Surprises Yale Football Team". The New York Times. October 27, 1901. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
17. "Cadets Tie Yale: Most of the West Pointers' Gains Were Made by Kicking". New York Daily Tribune. November 3, 1901. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Yale 35; Orange Athletic Club 0". New York Daily Tribune. November 10, 1901. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
19. "Yale and Cornell Winners: Princeton Unable To Score Against Old Eli; Rout of the Tigers". New York Tribune. November 17, 1901. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
20. Dudley S. Dean (November 24, 1901). "Harvard 22, Yale 0: Crimson Give the Blue Saddest Surprise in History". The Boston Sunday Globe. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.