1906 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1906 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team compiled a 9–0–1 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 144 to 7.[1] Four Yale players were selected as consensus All-Americans, and the team was retroactively selected by multiple selectors as the national champion for 1906.

1906 Yale Bulldogs football
"The Yale Eleven of 1906"
National champion
(Billingsley, Davis, Whitney)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0–1
Head coach
CaptainSamuel Finley Brown Morse
Home stadiumYale Field
1906 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton   –  9 –0 –1
Yale   –  9 –0 –1
Haverford   –  7 –0 –2
Harvard   –  10 –1 –0
Cornell   –  8 –1 –2
Lafayette   –  8 –1 –1
Penn State   –  8 –1 –1
Washington & Jefferson   –  9 –2 –0
Swarthmore   –  7 –2 –0
Drexel   –  6 –2 –0
Tufts   –  6 –2 –0
Penn   –  7 –2 –3
Carlisle   –  9 –3 –0
Brown   –  6 –3 –0
Rutgers   –  5 –2 –2
Dartmouth   –  6 –3 –1
Syracuse   –  6 –3 –0
Colgate   –  4 –2 –2
Vermont   –  5 –4 –0
Fordham   –  5 –3 –0
Western U. of Penn.   –  6 –4 –0
Holy Cross   –  4 –3 –1
Amherst   –  3 –3 –1
Lehigh   –  5 –5 –1
Bucknell   –  3 –4 –1
Dickinson   –  3 –4 –2
Carnegie Tech   –  2 –3 –2
Army   –  3 –5 –1
Frankin & Marshall   –  3 –5 –1
Wesleyan   –  2 –4 –1
New Hampshire   –  2 –5 –1
Villanova   –  3 –7 –0
Springfield Training School   –  1 –5 –3
NYU   –  0 –4 –0

National championship claim

There was no contemporaneous system in 1906 for determining a national champion. However, several selectors (the Billingsley Report, Caspar Whitney, and Parke H. Davis) have retroactively named Yale as the national champion.[2] Other selectors (Helms, NCF) chose Princeton as the national champion.[2] Yale and Princeton both finished with undefeated seasons and played each other to a 0–0 tie on November 17, 1906.[3]

Key players

Four Yale players were among the eleven selected as consensus first-team players on the 1906 All-America team.[4] Yale's four consensus All Americans were: halfback William F. Knox; fullback Paul Veeder; end Robert Forbes; and tackle Lucius Horatio Biglow. Five other Yale players receiving All-American honors were quarterback Tad Jones, fullback Samuel F. B. Morse, center Clarence Hockenberger, end Clarence Alcott, and Arthur Brides.[5][6][7][8]

The 1906 college football season was a year of change. Following controversies in 1905 over the increase of violence and professionalism in college football, a number of rule changes were implemented in 1906. The most lasting change introduced in 1906 was the forward pass. Yale's Paul Veeder and Bob Forbes combined for one of the first important pass plays, a play described in one history of the game as follows: "The only other significant pass that season was thrown by Yale, which gained a first down that led to victory over Harvard, when Paul Veeder threw thirty yards to Bob Forbes."[9]

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3Wesleyan
W 21–0[10]
October 6Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 51–0[11]
October 10Springfield Training School
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–01,000[12][13][14]
October 13Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 17–01,000[15][16]
October 20Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 10–0[17]
October 27Amherst
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–0[18]
November 3at Army
W 10–6[19]
November 10Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 5–0[20]
November 172:08 p.m.at Princeton
T 0–030,000[21][3][22]
November 24Harvard
W 6–0[23]

[1]

References
  1. "1906 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. "Big Football Battle Draw: Yale and Princeton Teams Fight in Vain to Score in Two Long Halves". New York Tribune. November 18, 1906. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  5. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
  6. Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537.
  7. "'Bob' Edgren Picks Out An All-American Team: Yale and Princeton Predominate His Choice". The Post-Standard (Syracuse). December 3, 1905.
  8. "New Football Produces Individual Brilliancy: Many Players Merit Places on Fanciful All-American Team" (PDF). The New York Times. December 9, 1906.
  9. Sally Jenkins (2007). "The Real All Americans". p. 232. ISBN 9780385522991.
  10. "Yale Easy Winner Under New Rules". The Hartford Courant. October 4, 1906. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Big Score at Yale: Eli Players Defeat Syracuse 51 to 0 in a Sensational Game". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 7, 1906. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Twelve Points For Yale". Journal Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 11, 1906. p. 1. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  13. "Twelve Points For Yale (continued)". Journal Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 11, 1906. p. 3. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  14. "Yale Had To Play Hard Football". The Hartford Courant. October 11, 1906. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Yale's Form Holds". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 14, 1906. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Yale 17, Holy Cross 0". The Boston Globe. October 14, 1906. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. "Yale 10, Penn State 0". The Boston Globe. October 21, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "Amherst Scares Yale". New York Tribune. October 28, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. "Yale field goal Wins Luckiest of Victories". The New York Times. November 4, 1906. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. "Yale Team Is Given Scare: Brown Holds the New Haven Players to Small Score of Five to Nothing". Chicago Tribune. November 11, 1906. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. "Princeton, 0; Yale, 0; End Of The Game". The Star-Independent. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. November 17, 1906. p. 1. Retrieved April 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  22. "Neither Side Could Score: The Princeton-Yale Football Game a Wonder". Chattanooga Daily Times. November 18, 1906. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. "Yale Triumphs, 6-0, By Brainy Football". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1906. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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