1952 Rochester Yellowjackets football team

1952 Rochester Yellowjackets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0
Head coach
Home stadiumFauver Stadium
Seasons
← 1951
1953 →
1952 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Rochester     8 0 0
Hofstra     8 1 0
No. 19 Princeton     8 1 0
Franklin & Marshall     7 1 0
Villanova     7 1 1
Holy Cross     8 2 0
Yale     7 2 0
Penn State     7 2 1
No. 14 Syracuse     7 3 0
Bucknell     6 3 0
Colgate     6 3 0
Pittsburgh     6 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Harvard     5 4 0
Boston University     5 4 1
Penn     4 3 2
Army     4 4 1
Boston College     4 4 1
Tufts     3 4 1
Drexel     3 4 0
Fordham     2 5 1
NYU     2 5 1
Columbia     2 6 1
Brown     2 7 0
Cornell     2 7 0
Dartmouth     2 7 0
Temple     2 7 1
Buffalo     1 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1952 Rochester Yellowjackets football team, also commonly known as the Rivermen, was an American football team that represented the University of Rochester as an independent during the 1952 college football season. In their ninth year under head coach Elmer Burnham, the Yellowjackets compiled a perfect 8–0 record, shut out the first five opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 217 to 68. It was the first perfect season in the 63-year history of Rochester football.[1]

One of the highlights of the season was a game between Rochester led by Elmer Burnham and Oberlin led by Burnham's son, Bob Burnham.[2]

Rochester played its home games at Fauver Stadium in Rochester, New York.

  1. ^ Scott Hauser (2001). "It's a Whole New Ball Game". Rochester Review.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference father was invoked but never defined (see the help page).