1907 Yale Bulldogs football team explained

Year:1907
Team:Yale Bulldogs
Sport:football
Conference:Independent
Record:9–0–1
Head Coach:William F. Knox
Hc Year:1st
Captain:Lucius Horatio Bigelow
Stadium:Yale Field
Champion:National champion

The 1907 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 10.[1] William F. Knox was the head coach, and Lucius Horatio Bigelow was the team captain.

Yale was ranked first in the nation by Caspar Whitney in January 1908.[2] The team was additionally later retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, the National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[3]

Four Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1907 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Tad Jones; fullback Ted Coy; end Clarence Alcott; and tackle Lucius Horatio Biglow.[4]

Schedule

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1907 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results. Sports Reference LLC. SR/College Football. February 27, 2017.
  2. Whitney . Caspar . Whitney . Caspar . January 1908 . LI . 4 . 495–498, 514–516 . The View-Point: Team Ranking 1907 . . Outing Publishing Company . January 26, 2024 .
  3. Web site: National Poll Rankings . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) . 2015. NCAA Division I Football Records . NCAA . 108 . January 4, 2016 . PDF.
  4. Web site: Football Award Winners. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. October 21, 2017. 6.