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1916 Yale Bulldogs football team

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{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 1916

| team = Yale Bulldogs

| sport = football

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| conference = Independent

| record = 8–1

| head_coach = Tad Jones

| hc_year = 1st

| captain = Clinton Black

| stadium = Yale Bowl, Yale Field

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{{1916 Eastern college football independents records}}

The 1916 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1916 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Tad Jones. The team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 182 to 44 and suffered its only loss to Brown.{{cite web|title=1916 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/1916-schedule.html}} Yale guard Clinton Black was a consensus pick for the 1916 College Football All-America Team, and four other Yale players (ends Charles Comerford and George Moseley, halfback Harry LeGore, and a guard with the surname Fox) also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector in 1916. Black was the team's captain.{{cite journal | title=Cupid Black Chosen Yale Football Captain for 1916 | journal=The Day | date=December 1, 1915 | edition=Afternoon | pages=12 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19151201&id=4vsgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lXUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6244,3562809}}

Schedule

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|September 30| |{{cfb link|year=1916|team=Carnegie Tech Tartans|title=Carnegie Tech}}|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|W 25–0||{{cite news|title=Yale Opens Season by Beating Carnegie Tech|newspaper=The Hartford Courant|date=October 1, 1916|page=33|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98188460/yale-opens-season-by-beating-carnegie/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 7| |Virginia|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|W 61–3||{{cite news|title=Yale Crushes Virginia Beneath 61 to 3 Defeat|newspaper=The Hartford Courant|date=October 8, 1916|page=31|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98188271/yale-crushes-virginia-beneath-61-to-3/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 14| |Lehigh|Yale Field|New Haven, CT|W 12–0|7,000|{{cite news|title=Harry Legore's Sensational Playing Features Yale Victory Over Lehigh|newspaper=The Hartford Courant|date=October 15, 1916|page=Z3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98188120/harry-legores-sensational-playing/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 20| |VPI|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|W 19–0|5,000|{{cite news|title=Yale Substitutes Win From Virginia, 20 to 0|newspaper=The Harford Courant|date=October 21, 1916|page=18|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98187894/yale-substitutes-win-from-virginia-20/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|October 28| |Washington & Jefferson|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|W 36–14||{{cite news|title=Yale's Rush Line Shows Much Power: Washington and Jefferson Beaten by 36 to 14|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=October 29, 1916|page=16|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98187635/yales-rush-line-shows-much-power/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|November 4| |Colgate|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|W 7–3||{{cite news|title=Yale Defeats Colgate 7 to 3|newspaper=Boston Post|date=November 5, 1916|page=17|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98187427/yale-defeats-colgate-7-to-3/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|November 11||Brown|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|L 6–21||{{cite news|title=Pollard, Brown's Wonderful Halfback, Shines Brightly in Brown's Second Conquest of Bulldog|newspaper=The Hartford Courant|date=November 12, 1916|page=Z3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98187098/pollard-browns-wonderful-halfback/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|November 18|at|Princeton (rivalry)|Palmer Stadium|Princeton, NJ|W 10–0|42,000|{{cite news|title=Battered Yale Sweeps Tigers To Dire Defeat|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 19, 1916|page=VIII-1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98185979/battered-yale-sweeps-tigers-to-dire/|via=Newspapers.com}}

|November 25| |Harvard (rivalry)|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|W 6–3||{{cite news|title=Harvard Falls Before Fierce Rush of Yale|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 26, 1916|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98185730/harvard-falls-before-fierce-rush-of-yale/|via=Newspapers.com}}

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Roster

{{cite web |author= |title=All-Time Lettermen (DOC) |url=https://yalebulldogs.com/documents/2019/7/19//Lettermen_updated_through_2018__003_.doc?id=3591 |publisher=Yale University Athletics |access-date=February 2, 2025 }}

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