American college football season
The1894 Yale Bulldogs football team was anAmerican football team that representedYale University as an independent during the1894 college football season . The team finished with a 16–0 record, shut out 13 of 16 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 485 to 13.[ 1] William Rhodes was the head coach, andFrank Hinkey was the team captain.
There was no contemporaneous system in 1894 for determining anational champion . However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by theBillingsley Report ,Helms Athletic Foundation , andNational Championship Foundation , and as a co-national champion byParke H. Davis .[ 2]
Five Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the1894 All-America team . The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterbackGeorge Adee , fullbackFrank Butterworth , endFrank Hinkey , centerPhillip Stillman , and guardBill Hickok .[ 3]
The Bulldogs' 16–0 record was not matched again at any level of college football until 125 years later whenNorth Dakota State won the2019 FCS National Championship .[ 4] In 2026,Indiana matched the record in theCFP National Championship with a victory overMiami (FL) for its first national championship.[ 5]
Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance Source September 29 atTrinity (CT) Hartford, CT W 42–0[ 6] October 3 Brown W 28–02,500 [ 7] October 6 atCrescent Athletic Club W 10–03,000 [ 8] October 10 Williams W 23–4[ 9] October 13 Lehigh W 34–0[ 10] October 17 vs.Dartmouth W 34–0700 [ 11] [ 12] October 20 atOrange Athletic Club W 24–02,500 [ 13] October 24 Boston Athletic Association W 23–0[ 14] October 27 atArmy W 12–56,000 [ 15] October 31 Volunteer (NY) Athletic Association W 42–0[ 16] November 3 3:15 p.m. at Brown W 12–05,000 [ 17] [ 18] November 7 Tufts W 67–0[ 19] November 10 vs.Lehigh W 50–0[ 20] November 14 Chicago Athletic Association W 48–01,500 [ 21] November 24 vs.Harvard Hampden Park Springfield, MA (rivalry ) W 12–423,000 [ 22] December 1 2:08 p.m. vs.Princeton W 24–020,000–30,000 [ 23] [ 24] [ 25] [ 26]
George Adee , QBBill Armstrong , HBAnson M. Beard , CLyman M. Bass , EAlexander Brown J. M. Brown, G Frank Butterworth , FBCharles Chadwick , THarry P. Cross , CAlfred W. Dafer Clarence DeWitt, HB Feeter, T Clarence Fincke , QBGerens, FB Gillette, HB John Campbell Greenway , EGeorge B. Hatch, E Bill Hickok , GRoss A. Hickok Louis Hinckey, E Frank Hinkey , EAlexander Jerrems , HBJudd, T Harold W. Letton, FB Marks, HB James A. McCrea, G Paul D. Mills, FB Charles S. Morris, QB Fred T. Murphy , TPond, HB George O. Redington, FB James O. Rodgers , TPhillip Stillman , CDudley Sutphin , TSam Thorne , FBWhitcomb, T [ 27]
^a b "1894 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results" .SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. RetrievedFebruary 27, 2017 .^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015)."National Poll Rankings" (PDF) .NCAA Division I Football Records . NCAA. p. 107. RetrievedJanuary 4, 2016 . ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. RetrievedOctober 21, 2017 .^ "North Dakota State beats James Madison, wins eighth FCS title" .ESPN.com . Associated Press. January 11, 2020. RetrievedJanuary 11, 2020 .^ Singh, Sanjesh (January 19, 2026)."Live updates: Indiana beats Miami 27-21 in CFP National Championship game" .www.nbcmiami.com .NBC Miami . RetrievedJanuary 20, 2026 . ^ "Yale, 44; Trinity, 0" .St. Louis Globe-Democrat . September 30, 1894. p. 11 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale 28, Brown 0" .The Boston Daily Globe .Boston, Massachusetts . October 4, 1894. p. 2. RetrievedMarch 8, 2022 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "On the Gridiron: Yale Surprised at the Crescent Team's Strength" .The Brooklyn Citizen . October 7, 1894. p. 3 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale Scored Against Williams by the Williams Football Team -- Captain Hinckey is Charged with Kicking a Man" .Boston Evening Transcript . October 11, 1894. p. 7 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale Walks Over Lehigh" .The Philadelphia Times . October 14, 1894. p. 8 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale 34, Dartmouth 0" .The Boston Daily Globe .Boston, Massachusetts . October 18, 1894. p. 4. RetrievedMarch 22, 2022 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yales Wins Over Dartmouth" .Boston Evening Transcript .Boston, Massachusetts . October 18, 1894. p. 5. RetrievedMarch 22, 2022 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale, 24; Orange A.C, O" .The Sun . October 21, 1894. p. 8 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Small Score: B.A.A. Holds Yale Down to 23 Points" .The Boston Globe . October 25, 1894. p. 1 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale 12, West Point 5" .The Boston Globe . October 28, 1894. p. 2 – viaNewspapers.com .^ " 'Twas Easy for Yale: The Volunteers Make a Weak Showing Against the Blue's Team" .The Philadelphia Inquirer . November 1, 1894. p. 6 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale 12, Brown 0" .The Boston Sunday Globe .Boston, Massachusetts . November 4, 1894. p. 2. RetrievedMarch 8, 2022 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Brown's Plucky Fight" .New York Tribune .New York, New York . November 4, 1894. p. 9. RetrievedMarch 8, 2022 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale's Big Score: The Blue Beats Tufts College Sixty-seven to Nothing" .The Philadelphia Inquirer . November 8, 1894. p. 6 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale's Heavy Scoring: With Many Substitutions She Rolls Up Fifty Points on Lehigh" .The Philadelphia Times . November 11, 1894. p. 8 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale Scores 48" .The Boston Daily Globe .Boston, Massachusetts . November 15, 1894. p. 4. RetrievedMarch 22, 2022 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale 12, Harvard 4" .The Boston Globe . November 25, 1894. pp. 1, 2, 4 – viaNewspaperArchive .^ "Yale, 24 Princeton, 0: The Blue Has an Easy Triumph Over the Tiger" .The Philadelphia Times . December 2, 1894. p. 8 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Tigers Downed" .The Sunday Times .Minneapolis, Minnesota . December 2, 1894. p. 1. RetrievedMarch 22, 2022 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale 24, Princeton 0" .The Boston Sunday Globe .Boston, Massachusetts . December 2, 1894. p. 1. RetrievedMarch 8, 2022 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Yale 24, Princeton 0 (continued)" .The Boston Sunday Globe .Boston, Massachusetts . December 2, 1894. p. 4. RetrievedMarch 8, 2022 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)" . Yale University Athletics. RetrievedJanuary 29, 2025 .
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