1903 Yale Bulldogs football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1903
| team = Yale Bulldogs
| sport = football
| image =
| image_size =
| conference = Independent
| record = 11–1
| head_coach = George B. Chadwick
| hc_year = 1st
| captain = Charles D. Rafferty
| stadium = Yale Field
}}
{{1903 Eastern college football independents records}}
The 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1903 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach George B. Chadwick. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 26 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Princeton.{{cite web|title=1903 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/1903-schedule.html}}
Four Yale players (fullback Ledyard Mitchell, end Charles D. Rafferty, tackle James Hogan and guard James Bloomer) were consensus picks for the 1903 College Football All-America Team.{{cite web|title=Award Winners|publisher=NCAA|year=2012|pages=2–4|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2012/Awards.pdf}} Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick,{{cite news|title=Crack Football Eleven|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 30, 1903}} and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the San Antonio Daily Light.{{cite news|title=The Ideal All-American Team|work=San Antonio Daily Light|date=December 14, 1903}}
Schedule
{{CFB schedule
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 26
| w/l = w
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1903|team=Trinity Bantams|title=Trinity (CT)}}
| site_stadium = Yale Field
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 35–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = September 30
| w/l = w
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1903|team=Tufts Jumbos|title=Tufts}}
| site_stadium = Yale Field
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 19–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 3
| w/l = w
| opponent = Vermont
| site_stadium = Yale Field
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 46–0
| source = {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79920963/yale-46-vermont-0/|work=The New York Times|title=Yale 46, Vermont 0|date=October 4, 1903|access-date=June 20, 2021|via=Newspapers.com}}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 7
| w/l = w
| opponent = {{cfb link|year=1903|team=Wesleyan Methodists|title=Wesleyan}}
| site_stadium = Yale Field
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 33–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 10
| w/l = w
| opponent = Springfield Training School
| site_stadium = Yale Field
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 22–0
| source = {{cite news |author= |title=Gave Yale A Battle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98342715/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Sunday Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=October 11, 1903 |page=10 |access-date=March 25, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 14
| w/l = w
| opponent = Holy Cross
| site_stadium = Yale Field
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 36–10
| source = {{cite news |title=Holy Cross surprises Yale |date=October 15, 1903 |page=1 |newspaper=Journal and Courier |access-date=June 20, 2021|via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72847003/1903-yale-hc/ }}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 17
| w/l = w
| opponent = Penn State
| site_stadium = Yale Field
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 27–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 24
| w/l = w
| away = y
| opponent = Army
| site_stadium = The Plain
| site_cityst = West Point, NY
| score = 17–5
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = October 31
| w/l = w
| away = y
| opponent = Columbia
| stadium = Polo Grounds
| cityst = New York, NY
| score = 25–0
| source = {{cite news|title=Yale's football victory|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 1, 1903|page=13|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29343267/yales_football_victory/|access-date=June 20, 2021|via=Newspapers.com}}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 7
| w/l = w
| opponent = Syracuse
| site_stadium = Yale Field
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| score = 30–0
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 14
| w/l = l
| opponent = Princeton
| site_stadium = Yale Field
| site_cityst = New Haven, CT
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 6–11
| attend = 30,000
| source = {{cite news|title=Princeton Wins Big Football Game: Yale Beaten at New Haven in Grand Contest by 11 to 6|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 15, 1903|pages=1, 2|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98334529/princeton-wins-big-football-game-yale/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=Princeton, Rah! Yale Swallows An 11-6 Defeat On Home Ground Before Ancient Rival|newspaper=The Sun|location=New York, N.Y.|date=November 15, 1903|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98334755/princeton-rah-yale-swallows-an-11-6/|via=Newspapers.com}}
}}
|{{CFB schedule entry
| date = November 21
| time = 2:00 p.m.
| w/l = w
| away = y
| opponent = Harvard
| site_stadium = Harvard Stadium
| site_cityst = Boston, MA
| gamename = rivalry
| score = 16–0
| attend = 37,000
| source = {{cite news |last=Webb |first=Melville E. Jr. |title=Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98709040/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 21, 1903 |page=1 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |last=Webb |first=Melville E. Jr. |title=Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98709130/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 21, 1903 |page=7 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |last=Webb |first=Melville E. Jr. |title=Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98709204/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 21, 1903 |page=8 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |last=Webb |first=Melville E. Jr. |title=Harvard Fight Hard But Yale Wins 16-0 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98709324/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Sunday Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 21, 1903 |page=1 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |last=Webb |first=Melville E. Jr. |title=Yale Wins 16-0 (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98709387/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Sunday Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 21, 1903 |page=5 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |last=Webb |first=Melville E. Jr. |title=Yale Wins 16-0 (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98709458/the-boston-globe/ |newspaper=The Boston Sunday Globe |location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=November 21, 1903 |page=9 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
}}
}}
Roster
- Arthur W. Allen, E
- Leon H. Andrews, T
- Harold S. Batchelder, G
- Lebbeus F. Bissell, T
- James Bloomer, G
- Fernando M. Blount
- Morgan H. Bowman, FB
- Malcolm Farmer, FB
- Carl S. Flanders, G
- Morin S. Hare, E
- James Hogan, T
- Lydig Hoyt, FB
- Willard Hyatt
- Ralph Kinney, T
- Frank McCoy, HB
- Harold G. Metcalf, QB
- James E. Miller, G
- Ledyard Mitchell, HB
- John A. Moorhead, E
- Sydney B. Morton, G
- Chester T. Neal, E
- Jack Owsley, HB
- James C. Preston, HB
- Charles D. Rafferty, E
- Foster Rockwell, QB
- J. Clinton Roraback, C
- Tom Shevlin, E
- Philip C. Smith, C
- Willard B. Soper, HB
- John A. Stevenson, FB
- Stillman, E
- Spencer Turner, T
- Twitchwell, QB
- Burnside Winslow