1875 Yale Bulldogs football team
{{Short description|American college football season}}
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{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1875
| team = Yale Bulldogs
| sport = football
| image = Yale football team 1875.jpg
| image_size = 250
| conference = Independent
| record = 2–2
| head_coach = None
| captain = William Arnold
| stadium = Hamilton Park
}}
{{1875 college football records}}
The 1875 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1875 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 2–2 record. The team won games against Rutgers and Wesleyan and lost to Harvard and Columbia.{{cite web|title=1875 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=SR/College Football|access-date=February 27, 2017|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/yale/1875-schedule.html}}
In this season, the first Yale vs Harvard contest was held, two years after the inaugural Yale vs Princeton football contest. Harvard athlete Nathaniel Curtis challenged Yale's captain, William Arnold, to a rugby-style game.{{cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.171.html/2005/important-sports-memorabilia-and-cards-n08155|title=First Harvard versus Yale Football Game Program, 1875 - lot - Sotheby's|work=sothebys.com}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theunbalancedline.com/2010/03/year-by-year-1875.html|title=Year by Year 1875|work=theunbalancedline.com}} The next season Curtis was captain.{{cite web|url=http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_Captains_Media_Center|title=Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football - All-Time Football Captains|work=Harvard|access-date=2021-01-10|archive-date=2013-02-16|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216043845/http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/history/Football_Captains_Media_Center|url-status=dead}} He took one look at Walter Camp, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captain Gene Baker "You don't mean to let that child play, do you? . . . He will get hurt."{{cite news|url=http://www.theunbalancedline.com/2010/03/year-by-year-1875.html|date=September 8, 1962|title=Camp Curbed the Carnage|work=Spokane Daily Chronicle}}{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19751121&id=mLgsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4gkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1131,4642309&hl=en|title=Star-News - Google News Archive Search|work=google.com}}
The two teams agreed to play under a set of rules called the "Concessionary Rules", which involved Harvard conceding something to Yale's soccer and Yale conceding a great deal to Harvard's rugby.{{Cite web |title=No Christian End! |url=http://www.profootballresearchers.com/articles/No_Christian_End.pdf |access-date=January 26, 2010 |website=The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889 |publisher=Professional Football Researchers Association}} The game featured a round ball instead of a rugby-style oblong ball,{{Cite book |last=Parke H. Davis |url=https://archive.org/stream/football002320mbp#page/n77/mode/2up |title=Football, the American intercollegiate game |page=64 |author-link=Parke H. Davis}} and caused Yale to drop association football in favor of rugby.[https://www.academia.edu/34307566/THE_BOSTON_GAME THE BOSTON GAME] article by Michael T. Geary at academia.edu
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 6
| w/l = w
| opponent = Rutgers
| site_stadium = Hamilton Park
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 4–1
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 13
| w/l = l
| opponent = Harvard
| site_stadium = Hamilton Park
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 0–4
| source = {{cite news |author= |title=Football Game Between Harvard and Yale Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98665768/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 13, 1875 |page=5 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |author= |title=Foot Ball.—The Match Between Harvard And Yale – Harvard Victorious |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98665609/boston-evening-transcript/ |newspaper=Boston Evening Transcript |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 15, 1875 |page=1 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 20
| w/l = w
| opponent = Wesleyan
| site_stadium = Hamilton Park
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 6–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = December 4
| w/l = l
| opponent = Columbia
| site_stadium = Hamilton Park
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 2–3
}}
}}
{{multiple image|
|align = left
|total_width = 500
|image1 = Harvard vs yale program 1875.jpg
|image2 = 1875 collegenews at bostonglobe.jpg
|footer = Left: Program for the "Foot Ball Match", Harvard versus Yale, the first intercollegiate rugby football game between Ivy League teams. The two teams played with 15 players on a side;
right: News about the Harvard v Yale game played under the "concessionary rules" in 1875. It is considered the first rugby-style game in the US}}
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See also
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