1896 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1896 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1896 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 13–1 record under first-year head coach Sam Thorne. The team recorded nine shutouts and won its first 13 games by a combined 212 to 29 score. It then lost its final game against rival Princeton by a 24–6 score.[1]

1896 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record13–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Field
1896 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Fordham   –  1 –0 –0
Lafayette   –  11 –0 –1
Princeton   –  10 –0 –1
Washington & Jefferson   –  8 –0 –1
Penn   –  14 –1 –0
Yale   –  13 –1 –0
Pittsburgh College   –  11 –2 –0
Buffalo   –  9 –1 –2
Villanova   –  10 –4 –0
Bucknell   –  5 –2 –1
Harvard   –  7 –4 –0
Boston College   –  5 –3 –0
Storrs   –  5 –3 –0
Cornell   –  5 –3 –1
Syracuse   –  5 –3 –2
Temple   –  3 –2 –0
Army   –  3 –2 –1
Rutgers   –  6 –6 –0
Carlisle   –  5 –5 –0
Holy Cross   –  2 –2 –2
Brown   –  4 –5 –1
Wesleyan   –  4 –5 –1
Frankin & Marshall   –  3 –4 –2
Geneva   –  3 –4 –0
Penn State   –  3 –4 –0
Colgate   –  3 –4 –1
Amherst   –  3 –6 –1
Western Univ. Penn.   –  3 –6 –0
Lehigh   –  2 –5 –0
Tufts   –  2 –6 –1
Swarthmore   –  2 –6 –0
New Hampshire   –  1 –4 –0
Drexel   –  1 –5 –0
Massachusetts   –  0 –4 –0
Rhode Island   –  0 –4 –0

Two Yale players, quarterback Clarence Fincke and tackle Fred T. Murphy, were consensus picks for the 1896 College Football All-America Team.[2] Leslie's Weekly also picked three other Yale players (ends Lyman Bass and Louis Hinkey and center Burr Chamberlain) as 1896 first-team All-America players.[3]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26at Trinity (CT) Hartford, CTW 6–0 [4]
September 30 Amherst
W 12–0 [5]
October 7 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–01,800[6][7]
October 10vs. Orange Athletic Club
W 12–01,000[8]
October 14 Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0 [9]
October 17 Dartmouth
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 42–0 [10]
October 21 Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0 [11]
October 24vs. Carlisle
W 12–65,000[12]
October 28 Elizabeth A. C.
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–6 [13]
October 31at Army
W 16–2 [14]
November 3 Boston Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 10–02,500[15]
November 7at Brown
W 18–62,500[16][17]
November 14 New Jersey A.C.
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 16–0 [18]
November 21 Princeton
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY (rivalry)
L 6–2435,000–50,000[19][20]

References
  1. "1896 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  4. "Yale Scores But Once On Trinity's Eleven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 27, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Amherst Gives Yale a Hard Tussle". Boston Post. October 1, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Yale 18, Brown 0". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "Victory for the Blue". Chicago Tribune. October 8, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Yale, 12; Orange, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 11, 1896. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Yale, 22; Williams, O". Boston Post. October 15, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Yale Beats Dartmouth Easily". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 18, 1896. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Yale, 16; Wesleyan, 0". Boston Post. October 22, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Yale Had a Close Call". The New York Times. October 25, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Close Formation Plays Give Yale a Surprise: Elizabeth A. C. Scores Six Points, and the Blue Goes Them Six Points Better". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 29, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Yale, 16; West Point, 2". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 1, 1896. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Yale, 10; Boston A.A., 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 4, 1896. p. 10.
  16. "Yale-Brown". Buffalo Evening News. Buffalo, New York. November 7, 1896. p. 51. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  17. "Brown University Scores Against Yale". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 8, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "Yale Held Down: Scored But Sixteen Points Against the New Jersey Athletic Club". Washington Times. November 15, 1896. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. "Nassau Beats Eli: Princeton Football Players Bowled Over Yale's Warriors and Won Easily on Manhattan Field". The New York Times. November 22, 1896. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. "Princeton Won at Manhattan Field and the Blow Almost Killed Eli". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 22, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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