| Year: | 1887 |
| Team: | Yale Bulldogs |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Intercollegiate Football Association |
| Short Conf: | IFA |
| Record: | 9–0 |
| Head Coach: | None |
| Captain: | Harry Beecher |
| Stadium: | Yale Field |
| Champion: | National champion IFA champion |
The 1887 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as a member of the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) during the 1887 college football season. The team compiled a perfect 9–0 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 515 to 12.[1] Quarterback Harry Beecher was the team's captain.[2]
There was no contemporaneous system in 1887 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[3]