1880 Yale Bulldogs football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1880
| team = Yale Bulldogs
| sport = football
| image =
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| conference = Independent
| record = 4–0–1
| head_coach = None
| captain = Robert W. Watson
| stadium = Hamilton Park
| champion = National champion (Billingsley)
Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)
}}
{{1880 college football records}}
The 1880 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1880 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record, did not allow opposing teams to score a single point, outscored all opponents, 30–0, and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion with Princeton by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2015/FBS.pdf |title=National Poll Rankings |author=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) |year=2015|work=NCAA Division I Football Records |publisher=NCAA |pages=105–106 |access-date=January 4, 2016 }}{{cite web|title=1880 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/1880-schedule.html}}
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 10
| time = 3:00 p.m.
| w/l = w
| opponent = Columbia
| site_stadium = Hamilton Park
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 13–0
| attend = 600
| source = {{cite news |author= |title=College Notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98668834/the-morning-journal-courier/ |newspaper=Journal and Courier |location=New Haven, Connecticut |date=November 10, 1880 |page=3 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |author= |title=A Victory For Yale |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98669079/the-morning-journal-courier/ |newspaper=Journal and Courier |location=New Haven, Connecticut |date=November 11, 1880 |page=2 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 13
| w/l = w
| opponent = Brown
| site_stadium = Hamilton Park
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 8–0
| attend = 250
| source = {{cite news |author= |title=College Notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98669272/the-morning-journal-courier/ |newspaper=Journal and Courier |location=New Haven, Connecticut |date=November 15, 1880 |page=2 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 17
| w/l = w
| neutral = y
| opponent = Penn
| site_stadium = Polo Grounds
| site_cityst = New York, NY
| score = 8–0
| attend = 500
| source = {{cite news |author= |title=Yale's Easy Victory At Foot-Ball |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98669399/the-new-york-times/ |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York, New York |date=November 18, 1880 |page=5 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |author= |title=College Teams At Foot Ball.—The Pennsylvania University Club Badly Defeated by the Yales |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98669526/the-sun/ |newspaper=The Sun |location=New York, New York |date=November 18, 1880 |page=1 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 20
| time = 2:45 p.m.
| w/l = w
| away = y
| opponent = Harvard
| site_stadium = Boston Baseball Grounds
| site_cityst = Boston, MA
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 1–0
| attend = 700
| source = {{cite news |author= |title=Harvard Vs. Yale |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98669756/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Sunday Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 21, 1880 |page=1 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 25
| time = 2:30 p.m.
| w/l = t
| neutral = y
| opponent = Princeton
| site_stadium = Polo Grounds
| site_cityst = New York, NY
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 0–0
| attend = 4,000
| source = {{cite news |author= |title=Vain Work At Foot-Ball |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98670002/the-new-york-times/ |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York, New York |date=November 26, 1880 |page=2 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |author= |title=Football In The Snow |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98670121/the-sun/ |newspaper=The Sun |location=New York, New York |date=November 26, 1880 |page=1 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
}}
}}
Roster
- Rushers: Philo Carroll Fuller, Charles S. Beck, Louis K. Hull, John S. Harding, Benjamin B. Lamb, Charles Bigelow Storrs, Franklin M. Eaton
- Quarterback: Walter Irving Badger
- Halfbacks: Robert W. Watson, Walter Camp
- Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon
- Others: John L. Adams, George H. Clark, John S. Durand, Howard H. Knapp, Chester W. Lyman, John F. Merrill, John Moorhead Jr., William Nixon, William A. Peters, Frederic Remington, Adrian S. Vandegraaf, Frederick R. Vernon
- Manager: William B. Hill
{{cite book|title=A History of Yale Athletics, 1840-1888|author=Richard Melancthon Hurd|publisher=Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor|page=81|year=1888|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RkxDAAAAYAAJ}}{{cite book|title=The Yale Football Story|author=Tim Cohane|publisher=Putnam|year=1951|page=343}}{{cite web|title=Yale Football 2009 Media Guide|publisher=Yale University|year=2009|pages=113–125|url=https://issuu.com/ivyleaguemanual/docs/yale-football-2009-opt}}
References
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