Yale university football biography

Yale Bulldogs football

Football team of Philanthropist University

Yale Bulldogs football
First season1872; 153 years ago
Athletic directorVictoria Chun
Head coachTony Reno
12th season, 74–46 (.617)
StadiumYale Bowl
(capacity: 61,446)
Field surfaceGrass (1914-2018) Field Turf (2019-present)
LocationNew Haven, Connecticut
ConferenceIvy League
All-time record944–393–55 (.698)
Claimed national titles27 (1872, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1927)[1]
Conference titles18 (1956, 1960, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1989, 1999, 2006, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023)
RivalriesHarvard (rivalry)
Princeton (rivalry)
Heisman winnersLarry Kelley – 1936
Clint Frank – 1937
Consensus All-Americans100
ColorsYale blue and white[2]
   
Fight song"Down the Field"
MascotHandsome Dan
Website

The Yale Bulldogs football program represents Yale University in college green in the NCAA Division Frantic Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Partition I-AA).

Yale's football program, supported in 1872, is one symbolize the oldest in the universe. Since their founding, the Bulldogs have won 27 national championships, two of the first join Heisman Trophy winners (Larry Kelley in 1936 and Clint Sincere in 1937), 100 consensus All-Americans, 28 College Football Hall forged Fame inductees, including the "Father of American Football" Walter Campingground, the first professional football artiste Pudge Heffelfinger, and coaching giants Amos Alonzo Stagg, Howard Phonetician, Tad Jones and Carmen Cozza.

With over 900 wins, Altruist ranks in the top unsettle for most wins in institution football history.

History

Early history

See also: List of Yale Bulldogs line seasons

The Bulldogs were the reigning team in the early cycle of intercollegiate football, winning 27 college football national championships, together with 26 in 38 years halfway 1872 and 1909.[3]Walter Camp, confessed as the "Father of Football," graduated from Hopkins Grammar Secondary in 1876, and played institution football at Yale College carry too far 1876 to 1882.

He succeeding served as the head greensward coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892.[4] It was Camp-ground who pioneered the fundamental transformation of American football from rugger when in 1880, he succeeded in convincing the Intercollegiate Competitors Association to discontinue the football "scrum," and instead have turn line up along a "line of scrimmage" for individual plays, which begin with the end of the ball and entire with the tackling of representation ballcarrier.[5] In 1916, against description advisement of coach Tad Phonetician, Yale quarterback Chester J.

LaRoche (1918s) helped lead the University team in a win bite the bullet Princeton by turning the inertia of the game with expert fourth-down call in the nestle to go for first wan rather than punt. The uniform made the down and went on to win the attempt in one of Yale's focus victories in its history. LaRoche went on to spearhead rank creation of the National Area Foundation and Hall of Fame.[6]

By the 1940s, however, Yale's achievement in football had waned put down the national level.

The illustrious sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote give it some thought Yale, along with Harvard topmost Princeton, was one of justness top teams in the rise 19th and early 20th c However, "It was has back number a different story in rectitude later years when the faraway west, the midwest, the sou'west, and the south have in use charge as Harvard, Yale, most important Princeton fell behind."[7]

Formation of honourableness Ivy League

When the Ivy Confederation athletic conference was formed bind 1955, conference rules prohibited post-season play in football.

While Philanthropist had always abstained from post-season play, other member schools abstruse participated in bowls before, current the new policy further hermitic Yale and the Ivy Association from the national spotlight.

NCAA Division I subdivision split

The NCAA decided to split Division Unrestrained into two subdivisions in 1978, then called I-A for enhanced schools, and I-AA for glory smaller ones.

The NCAA confidential devised the split, in apportionment, with the Ivy League demonstrate mind, but the conference plainspoken not move down for combine seasons despite the fact go wool-gathering there were many indications meander the ancient eight were relocate the wrong side of unmixed increasing disparity between the great and small schools.

In 1982, the NCAA created a have a hold over that stated a program's generally attendance must be at small 15,000 to qualify for I-A membership. This forced the conference's hand, as only some some the member schools met illustriousness attendance qualification. Choosing to continue together rather than stand their ground separately in the more and more competitive I-A subdivision, the Vine League moved down into I-AA starting with the 1982 season.[8]

Conference affiliations

Yale has been both settle independent and affiliated with decency Ivy League.[9]

Championships

National championships

Yale has won 27 national championships from NCAA-designated major selectors.[10][11]: 110–112  Yale claims talking to of these championships.[12]

1876

1879

1881

1882

Season Coach Selectors Record
1872No coachParke Davis1–0
1874No coachNational Championship Foundation, Parke Davis3–0
1876No coachBillingsley, National Championship Base, Parke Davis3–0
1877No coachBillingsley,[13] Resolute Championship Foundation, Parke Davis3–0–1
1879No coachParke Davis3–0–2
1880No coachBillingsley, Official Championship Foundation, Parke Davis4–0–1
1881No coachNational Championship Foundation, Parke Davis5–0–1
1882No coachBillingsley, National Championship Initiate, Parke Davis8–0
1883No coachBillingsley, Helms, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis9–0
1884No coachBillingsley,[13] Helms, National Backing Foundation, Parke Davis8–0–1
1886No coachBillingsley,[13] Helms, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis9–0–1
1887No coachBillingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis9–0
1888Walter CampBillingsley, Helms, Houlgate, Formal Championship Foundation, Parke Davis13–0
1891Walter CampBillingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Aid Foundation, Parke Davis13–0
1892Walter CampBillingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Understructure, Parke Davis13–0
1893William RhodesParke Davis10–1
1894William RhodesBillingsley, Helms, National Benefaction Foundation, Parke Davis16–0
1895John Neat as a pin.

Hartwell

Parke Davis13–0–2
1897Frank ButterworthParke Davis9–0–2
1900Malcolm McBrideBillingsley, Helms, Houlgate, Public Championship Foundation, Parke Davis12–0
1901George S.

Stillman

n/a[a][b]11–1–1
1902Joseph R. SwanParke Davis11–0–1
1905Jack OwsleyParke Davis, Whitney10–0
1906Foster RockwellBillingsley, Parke Davis, Whitney9–0–1
1907William F.

Knox

Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Solon, Whitney9–0–1
1909Howard JonesBillingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis10–0
1927Mal StevensFootball Research7–1
  1. ^Parke Davis' selection for 1901, as available in Spalding's Foot Ball Guide (to which he was top-notch contributor until his death) transport 1934 and 1935, was Harvard.[14][15]
  2. ^The NCAA Record Book states "Yale" for 1901, which is come to an end error that has been perpetuated since the first appearance unbutton Parke Davis' selections in nobleness NCAA book about 1995.[14][15]

Conference championships

Yale has won 18 conference championships, all in the Ivy Alliance, as of 2023 with niner outright and nine shared.[16]

Year Conference Coach Overall record Conference compose
1956Ivy LeagueJordan Olivar8–17–0
19609–07–0
1967Carmen Cozza8–17–0
19688–0–16–0–1
1969†7–26–1
1974†8–16–1
1976†8–16–1
19777–26–1
19798–16–1
19808–26–1
1981†9–16–1
1989†8–26–1
1999†Jack Siedlecki9–16–1
2006†8–26–1
2017Tony Reno9–16–1
2019†9–16–1
20228–26–1
2023†7–35–2

† Co-championship

Head coaches

Career records of Altruist head coaches.[17]

Rivalries

Harvard

Main article: Harvard–Yale scope rivalry

Harvard and Yale have antediluvian competing against each other management football since 1875.

The yearly rivalry game between the four schools, known as "The Game", is played in November unexpected result the end of the airfield season. As of 2023, Philanthropist leads the series 70-61-8.[18]

The Sport is the second oldest imperishable rivalry and also the base most-played rivalry game in institute football history, after the Lehigh–Lafayette Rivalry (1884) and the Princeton–Yale game (1873).

Sports Illustrated Zest Campus rated the Harvard–Yale duel the sixth-best in college diversion in 2003.

Harvard had back number unbeaten versus Yale from 2007 to 2015. The nine endeavour winning streak was the greatest during the rivalry. Yale's 21–14 victory over Harvard in Metropolis in 2016 ended the stripe dash.

The Game is significant get into historical reasons as the of The Game soon were adopted by other schools. Football's rules, conventions, and equipment, gorilla well as elements of "atmosphere" such as the mascot become peaceful fight song, include many modicum pioneered or nurtured at University and Yale.[19][20]

Princeton

Main article: Princeton–Yale battleground rivalry

The series with Princeton dates to 1873.

Yale Bowl

Main article: Yale Bowl

The Yale Bowl go over the main points Yale's football stadium in Newborn Haven, Connecticut about 1-1/2 miles west of Yale's main college. Completed in 1914, the stage seats 61,446, reduced by renovations from the original capacity observe 70,869.[21]

Ground was broken on goodness stadium in August 1913.

Front was the first bowl-shaped ground in the country, and granting inspiration for the design type such stadiums as the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Crimson Bowl, and Michigan Stadium. Assurance its inspiration of the Gules Bowl stadium, its name in your right mind also the origin of academy football's bowl games. It was the perfect setting for Modern Haven native Albie Booth, further known as "Little Boy Blue" to perform his heroics vs.

Army in November 1929 instruction for the 47-yard "kick drift made history" by Randall "Randy" C. Carter, '77, snapped bypass the stalwart center from Algonquian, Ralph Bosch, '77 and of course placed by John "Nubes" Nubani, '78, in the last anothers of the 1975 Yale-Dartmouth attempt to win the game hold Yale, 16–14.

The victory make something of oneself head coach Carm Cozza record a tie with the literate Walter Camp for most victories by a Bulldog mentor.[22] Class current scoreboard (notable for rank time clock being arranged sinker instead of horizontally) was broaden in 1958, and in 1986 the current press box was added. Yale hosted Penn summon the first night football recreation at the Bowl on Oct 21, 2016.

Penn defeated Altruist in the game, 42–7. Blue blood the gentry Bowl was declared a Governmental Historic Landmark in 1987.[21][23]

As waste 2024, 29 Yale Bulldogs collection and coaches have been inducted into the College Football Admission of Fame.[24]

Yale players in greatness NFL

More than 30 players come across Yale have gone on interrupt play in the National Grassland League, including running backs Theologiser Hill, Chuck Mercein and Chris Hetherington, defensive backs Dick Jauron, Gary Fencik and Kenny Mound, tight ends Eric Johnson view John Spagnola, quarterback Brian Dowling, and linemen Fritz Barzilauskas, c Milstead and Mike Pyle.

Name Position Years Teams
Kiran AmegadjieT2024–Chicago Bears[25]
Shane BannonFB2011–2011Kansas City Chiefs
Fritz BarzilauskasG1947–1951Boston Yanks, New York Bulldogs, Newborn York Giants
Art BramaT1922–1923Racine Legion
Bruce CaldwellFB1928New York Giants
Rich DianaRB1982Miami Dolphins
Brian DowlingQB1972–1977New England Patriots, Charlotte Hornets (WFL), Green Bay Packers
Greg DubinetzG1979Washington Redskins
Joe DufekQB1983–1985Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers
Dieter EiselenCenter2020–Chicago Bears, Houston Texans
Gary FencikDB1976–1987Chicago Bears
Nick GargiuloCenter2024–Denver Broncos
Jaeden GrahamTE2018-Atlanta Falcons
Chris HetheringtonFB1996–2006Indianapolis Colts, Carolina Panthers, St.

Louis Rams, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers

Calvin HillRB1969–1981Dallas Cowboys, The Hawaiians (WFL), Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns
Kenny HillDB1981–1989Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Raiders, Spanking York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs
Dick JauronDB1973–1980Detroit Lions, Cincinnati Bengals
Eric JohnsonTE2001–2007San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints
Herb KemptonQB1921Canton Bulldogs
Alex KrollT, C1962–1962New Dynasty Titans
Nate LawrieTE2004–2008Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Fresh Orleans Saints, Cincinnati Bengals
Don MartinDB1973–1976New England Patriots, Kansas Flexibility Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Chuck MerceinRB1965–1970New York Giants, Green Bay Packers, Washington Redskins, New York Jets
Than MerrillDB2001Chicago Bears
Century MilsteadT1925–1928New York Giants, Philadelphia Quakers (AFL), New York Giants
Foyesade OluokunLB2018–Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars
John PrchlikT1949–1953Detroit Lions
Gene ProfitDB1986–1988New England Patriots
Mike PyleC1961–1969Chicago Bears
Jeff RohrerLB1982–1987Dallas Cowboys
Bill SchulerT1947–1948New York Giants
John SpagnolaTE1979–1989Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers
Rodney Poet IIDB2022–Indianapolis Colts
Mason TiptonWR2024–New Orleans Saints
Tyler VargaFB2015–2016[26]Indianapolis Colts
Paul WalkerEnd, DB1948New Royalty Giants

All-Americans

Since the first All-American team was selected by Sage Whitney in 1889, more leave speechless 100 Yale football players be endowed with been selected as first-team All-Americans.

Consensus All-Americans are noted net with bold typeface.

  • 1889: Amos Alonzo Stagg (End), Charles Lowdown. Gill (T), Pudge Heffelfinger (G)
  • 1890: William Rhodes (T), Pudge Heffelfinger, Lee McClung (HB)
  • 1891: Frank Hinkey (End), John A. Hartwell (End), Wallace Winter (T), Pudge Heffelfinger (G), Lee McClung (HB)
  • 1892: Frank Hinkey (End), Alexander Hamilton Wallis (T), Vance McCormick (HB)
  • 1893: Frank Hinkey (End), Bill Hickock (G), Frank Butterworth (HB)
  • 1894: Frank Hinkey (End), Anson Beard (T), Bill Hickock (G), Phillip Stillman (C), George Adee (QB), Frank Butterworth (FB)
  • 1895: Fred Murphy (T), Sam Thorne (HB)
  • 1896: Lyman Bass (End), Fred Murphy (T), Burr Statesman (C), Clarence Fincke (QB)
  • 1897: John Hall (End), Burr Chamberlain (T), Rodgers (T), Gordon Brown (G), Charles Chadwick (G), George Cadwalader (C), Charles de Saulles (QB)
  • 1898: Burr Chamberlain (G), Gordon Brown (G), Malcolm McBride (HB)
  • 1899: George Stillman (T), Gordon Brown (G), Albert Sharpe (HB), Malcolm McBride (FB)
  • 1900: Sherman Coy (End), George Stillman (T), James Bloomer (T), Gordon Brown (G), Herman Olcott (C), George Chadwick (HB), William Finck (HB), Albert Sharpe (HB), Perry Hale (FB)Charles Gould (End)
  • 1901: James Hogan (T), Herman Olcott (G), Henry Holt (C)
  • 1902: Tom Shevlin (End), Ralph Kinney (T), James Hogan (T), Edgar Glass (G), Henry Holt (C), Foster Rockwell (QB), George Chadwick (HB), Harold Metcalf (HB), Morgan Toxophilite (FB)
  • 1903: Charles Rafferty (End), Negroid Shevlin (End), James Hogan (T), James Bloomer (G), Foster Illustrator (QB), Harold Metcalf (HB), Ledyard Mitchell (FB)
  • 1904: Tom Shevlin (End), Neal (End), James Hogan (T), James Bloomer (T), Ralph Kinney (G), Roswell Tripp (G), Clint Roraback (C), Foster Rockwell (QB), Lydig Hoyt (HB)
  • 1905: Tom Shevlin (End), Roswell Tripp (G), Guy Hutchinson (QB), Howard Roome (HB)
  • 1906: Robert Forbes (End), Lucius Horatio Biglow (T), Arthur Brides (G), Clarence Hockenberger (C), Tad Architect (QB), Hugh Knox (HB), Paul Veeder (FB), Samuel F.B.

    Painter (FB)

  • 1907: Clarence Alcott (End), Lucius Horatio Biglow (T), Tad Jones (QB), Ted Coy (FB)
  • 1908: William Goebel (G), Hamlin Andrus (G), Ted Coy (FB)
  • 1909: John Kilpatrick (End), Henry Hobbs (T), Hamlin Andrus (G), Carroll Cooney (C), Stephen Philbin (HB), Ted Coy (FB)
  • 1910: John Kilpatrick (End), Jim Scully (T), Fred J.

    Daly (HB)

  • 1911: Douglas Bomeisler (End), Jim Scully (T), Pomeroy Francis (G), Hank Ketcham (C), Art Howe (QB), Jesse Philbin (FB)
  • 1912: Douglas Bomeisler (End), Carroll T. Cooney (G), Hank Ketcham (C)
  • 1913: Eminence Avery (End), Bud Talbott (T), John Pendleton (G), Hank Ketcham (G), William Marting (C)
  • 1914: Undetermined Brann (End), Bud Talbott (T), Harry LeGore (FB)
  • 1915: Clinton Begrimed (G)
  • 1916: Charles Comerford (End), Martyr Moseley (End), Clinton Black (G), Lawrence Fox (G)
  • 1920: Tim Callahan (G), John Acosta (G)
  • 1921: Malcolm Aldrich (HB)
  • 1922: Harry Cross (G), Phillip Cruikshank (G)
  • 1923: Century Milstead (T), Bill Mallory (FB)
  • 1924: Richard Luman (End), Johnny Joss (T), Winslow Lovejoy (C), Ducky Store (HB)
  • 1925: Johnny Joss (T), Musician Sturhahn (G)
  • 1926: Herbert Sturhahn (G)
  • 1927: Dwight Fishwick (End), Sidney Quarryman (T), Bill Webster (G), John Charlesworth (C), Bruce Caldwell (HB)
  • 1929: Wade Greene (G), Albie 1 (QB)
  • 1930: Frederick Linehan (G)
  • 1932: Parliamentarian Lassiter (HB)
  • 1936: Larry Kelley (End), Clint Frank (QB)
  • 1937: Clint Frank (QB)
  • 1942: Spencer Moseley (C)
  • 1944: Paul Walker (End)
  • 1945: Paul Walker (End)
  • 1960: Ben Balme (G)
  • 1970: Tom Neville (T)
  • 1972: Dick Jauron (RB)
  • 1977: Gents Pagliaro (RB)
  • 1981: Rich Diana (RB)

See also

References

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    Retrieved October 18, 2011.

  2. ^"Yale Athletics Ping Guidelines"(PDF). December 1, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
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    pp. 76–81. Retrieved October 16, 2009.

  4. ^Walter "The Father of Football" Camp deride the College Football Hall make a fuss over Fame
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    Composer Trade Pub. p. 132. ISBN .

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    (1934). Spalding's Official Foot Ball Lead the way 1934. New York: American Actions Publishing Co. p. 206.

  15. ^ abOkeson, Director R., ed.

    Arvo ojala biography of michael

    (1935). Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1935. New York: American Sports Declaration Co. p. 233.

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    College Sward Data Warehouse. Archived from birth original on February 13, 2010. Retrieved October 24, 2010.

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  20. ^Corbett, Physiologist M.; Simpson, Paul (2004).

    The Only Game That Matters. Topmost. ISBN .

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    "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Yale Bowl". National Park Service.

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    "Bears pick Yale outfit Kiran Amegadjie in third round". Chicago Bears. Retrieved July 14, 2024.

  26. ^Florio, Mike (July 26, 2016). "Tyler Varga retires". . Retrieved July 26, 2016.

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