1914 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1914 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1914 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 7–2 record under first-year head coach Frank Hinkey.[1]

1914 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Field
Yale Bowl
1914 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Army    9 0 0
Harvard    7 0 2
Washington & Jefferson    10 1 0
Dartmouth    8 1 0
Lehigh    8 1 0
Pittsburgh    8 1 0
Cornell    8 2 0
Yale    7 2 0
Franklin & Marshall    6 2 1
Colgate    5 2 1
Princeton    5 2 1
Brown    5 2 2
Fordham    6 3 1
Geneva    5 3 0
Tufts    5 3 0
Penn State    5 3 1
Rutgers    5 3 1
Lafayette    5 3 2
Syracuse    5 3 2
Boston College    5 4 0
NYU    5 4 0
Villanova    4 3 1
Bucknell    4 4 1
Carnegie Tech    4 4 0
Penn    4 4 1
Temple    3 3 0
Rhode Island State    2 3 3
Carlisle    5 10 1
Holy Cross    2 5 1
Vermont    2 6 1
Duquesne    1 5 0

Fullback Harry LeGore was a consensus All-American, and tackle Bud Talbot also received first-team All-America honors from multiple selectors.

The Yale Bowl opened on November 21; the inaugural game was against rival Harvard, a 36–0 loss with a crowd of between 68,000 and 71,000 in attendance.[2][3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 MaineW 20–0
October 3 Virginia
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–0
October 10 Lehigh
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–3
October 17 Notre Dame
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–0
October 24 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–13 [4]
October 31 Colgate
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 49–7
November 7 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–6
November 14at PrincetonW 19–14 [5]
November 21 Harvard
L 0–3671,000[2]

References

  1. "1914 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Harvard Buries Yale In New Bowl: Pile Up 36 Points and Shut Out Yale". The Hartford Courant. November 22, 1914. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.(reporting crowd size of 71,000)
  3. "Greatest football crowd ever, sees big match". The Day. (New London, Connecticut). November 21, 1914. p. 13.(reporting crowd size of 68,117)
  4. "Wash-Jeff Defeats Yale". The Pittsburg Press. October 25, 1914. p. Sport 2.
  5. "Yale's Open Game Proves Its Worth". The Hartford Courant. November 15, 1914. pp. I-1, IV-2 via Newspapers.com.
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