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 when the2019 North Dakota State Bison football team won the2019 FCS national championship .[ 4]
Date Time Opponent Site Result Attendance Source September 29 atTrinity (CT) Hartford, CT W 42–0[ 5] October 3 Brown W 28–02,500 [ 6] October 6 atCrescent Athletic Club W 10–03,000 [ 7] October 10 Williams W 23–4[ 8] October 13 Lehigh W 34–0[ 9] October 17 vs.Dartmouth W 34–0700 [ 10] [ 11] October 20 atOrange Athletic Club W 24–02,500 [ 12] October 24 Boston Athletic Association W 23–0[ 13] October 27 atArmy W 12–56,000 [ 14] October 31 Volunteer (NY) Athletic Association W 42–0[ 15] November 3 3:15 p.m. at Brown W 12–05,000 [ 16] [ 17] November 7 Tufts W 67–0[ 18] November 10 vs.Lehigh W 50–0[ 19] November 14 Chicago Athletic Association W 48–01,500 [ 20] November 24 vs.Harvard Hampden Park Springfield, MA (rivalry ) W 12–423,000 [ 21] December 1 2:08 p.m. vs.Princeton W 24–020,000–30,000 [ 22] [ 23] [ 24] [ 25]
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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 [ 26]
^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 .^ "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 .^ " .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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