1902 Yale Bulldogs football team

1902 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–0–1
Head coach
CaptainGeorge B. Chadwick
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1901
1903 →
1902 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Ursinus     9 0 0
Yale     11 0 1
Geneva     7 0 0
Harvard     11 1 0
Princeton     8 1 0
Army     6 1 1
Frankin & Marshall     7 2 0
Dartmouth     6 2 1
Holy Cross     6 2 1
Syracuse     6 2 1
Carlisle     8 3 0
Cornell     8 3 0
Lafayette     8 3 0
Amherst     7 3 0
Penn State     7 3 0
Penn     9 4 0
Lehigh     7 3 1
Vermont     5 3 2
Colgate     5 3 1
NYU     5 3 0
Bucknell     6 4 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 4 0
Columbia     6 4 1
Springfield Training School     3 2 1
Villanova     4 3 0
Brown     5 4 1
Swarthmore     6 6 0
Western U. of Penn.     5 6 1
New Hampshire     2 3 1
Buffalo     3 5 1
Tufts     4 6 1
Fordham     2 4 1
Wesleyan     3 6 1
Rutgers     3 7 0
Navy     2 7 1
Drexel     1 4 1
Temple     1 4 1
Pittsburgh College     1 6 0
Boston College     0 8 0

The 1902 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1902 college football season. The team finished with an 11–0–1 record, shut out eight of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 286 to 22.[1] Joseph R. Swan was the head coach, and George B. Chadwick was the team captain.

Yale was selected as the 1902 champion in the 1903 edition of the World Almanac.[2]

In the absence of any recognized Intercollegiate Football Association the championship cannot always be unerringly fixed; but in 1902 there is no difficulty in allotting the honor to Yale, inasmuch as she won every one of her games.

— The World Almanac and Encyclopedia (1903)

In 1933 Yale was retroactively named as the national co-champion, along with Michigan, by NCAA-designated "major selector" Parke H. Davis.[3]

Seven Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1902 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Foster Rockwell; halfback George B. Chadwick; end Tom Shevlin; center Henry Holt; guard Edward Glass; and tackles Ralph Kinney and James Hogan.[4]

  1. ^ "1902 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Football. Intercollegiate Games of 1914.". The World Almanac and Encyclopedia (1903). 1903. pp. 261–262. In the absence of any recognized Intercollegiate Football Association the championship cannot always be unerringly fixed; but in 1902 there is no difficulty in allotting the honor to Yale, inasmuch as she won every one of her games.
  3. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  4. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.