1915 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1915 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1915 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 4–5 record under second-year head coach Frank Hinkey.^[1] It was the first losing season in Yale Bulldogs football history.^[2] No Yale player was a consensus All-American, though guard Clinton Black was selected as a first-team player by New York sports writer Monty on his 1915 College Football All-America Team.^[3]

1915 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–5
Head coach	Frank Hinkey (2nd season)
Captain	Alexander D. Wilson
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ← 1914 1916 →

1915 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Cornell			–					9	–	0	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					8	–	0	–	0
Columbia			–					5	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					8	–	1	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					7	–	1	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	1	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	1	–	0
Syracuse			–					9	–	1	–	2
Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	1
Tufts			–					5	–	1	–	2
Penn State			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	3	–	0
Princeton			–					6	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	1	–	1
Geneva			–					6	–	3	–	0
Wesleyan			–					6	–	3	–	0
Allegheny			–					5	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					5	–	3	–	0
Army			–					5	–	3	–	1
Lehigh			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					3	–	2	–	2
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Fordham			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					4	–	4	–	1
Middlebury			–					3	–	4	–	2
Muhlenberg			–					4	–	5	–	0
Yale			–					4	–	5	–	0
Boston College			–					3	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					3	–	5	–	2
WPI			–					3	–	5	–	1
Buffalo			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carlisle			–					3	–	6	–	2
Rhode Island State			–					3	–	5	–	0
New Hampshire			–					3	–	6	–	1
Gettysburg			–					3	–	6	–	0
Rochester			–					3	–	6	–	0
Bucknell			–					2	–	6	–	3
Vermont			–					1	–	4	–	2
Williams			–					1	–	7	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Maine	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 37–0		[4]
October 2	Virginia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–10		[5]
October 9	Lehigh	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 7–6		[6]
October 16	Springfield	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 19–0		[7]
October 23	Washington & Jefferson	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 7–16		[8]
October 30	Colgate	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–15		[9]
November 6	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–3		[10]
November 13	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 13–7	65,000	[11]
November 20	at Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–41	49,000	[12]

Roster

• Parker B. Allen, E
• Allan W. Ames, QB
• Howard M. Baldridge, T
• Bentley, QB
• Carleton W. Betts, E
• Robert S. Bingham, FB
• Clinton Black, G
• Blodgett, E
• George W. Carrington
• Wayne Chatfield-Taylor
• Heylinger Church, E
• Clark, QB
• John I. Conroy
• Durfee, G
• Artemus Gates, T
• Otis Guernsey, FB
• James H. Higginbotham, HB
• Edward W. Hubbard
• Emile W. Jacques
• Kent, G
• Harry LeGore, FB
• Edward T. Miller, C
• George Clark Moseley, E
• Joseph M. Neville, HB
• Charles H. Roberts, G
• William D. Savage, QB
• Richard M. Scovil, HB
• Charles M. Sheldon, T
• James R. Sheldon, G
• Smith, HB
• Stuart, FB
• Charles Phelps Taft II, HB
• Thompson, QB
• Howell Van Nostrand, QB
• Herman V. von Holt, G
• Franklyn E. Waite, FB
• James P. Walden, G
• Nelson M. Way, C
• Carl B. White, C
• Carl F. Wiedemann, E
• Alexander D. Wilson, HB

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