1900 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1900 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1900 college football season. The team finished with a 12–0 record, shut out ten of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 336 to 10.^[1] Malcolm McBride was the head coach, and Gordon Brown was the team captain.

1900 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
Conference	Independent
Record	12–0
Head coach	Malcolm McBride (1st season)
Captain	Gordon Brown
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ← 1899 1901 →

1900 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					12	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	1	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	2	–	1
Princeton			–					8	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					5	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Columbia			–					7	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					5	–	2	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	3	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	3	–	2
Holy Cross			–					5	–	3	–	1
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	1
Buffalo			–					3	–	2	–	2
Western Univ. of Penn			–					5	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	1
Dickinson			–					5	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	6	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	5	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	4	–	1
Penn State			–					4	–	6	–	1
Amherst			–					4	–	7	–	1
Dartmouth			–					2	–	4	–	2
NYU			–					3	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					3	–	6	–	1
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire			–					1	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	8	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	0

Yale is the only team retroactively named as the national champion for 1900 by NCAA-designated "major selectors". Those include the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.^[2]

Seven Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1900 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback William Fincke; halfback George B. Chadwick; fullback Perry Hale; center Herman Olcott; guard Gordon Brown; and tackles George S. Stillman and James Bloomer.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29		Trinity (CT)	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–0		[4]
October 3		Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 27–0	1,500	[5]
October 6		Tufts	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 30–0	2,300	[6]
October 10		Bates	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 50–0		[7]
October 13	3:15 p.m.	vs. Dartmouth	Cedar St. grounds Newton, MA	W 17–0		[8]
October 17		Bowdoin	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 30–0		[9]
October 20		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 38–0	4,000	[10]
October 27		at Columbia	Columbia Field New York, NY	W 12–5	8,000	[11][12]
November 3		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 18–0		[13]
November 10		Carlisle	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 35–0		[14]
November 17	2:45 p.m.	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 29–5		[15][16][17]
November 24		Harvard	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 28–0	20,000	[18][19]

Roster

• Thomas S. Adams, HB
• James Bloomer, T
• Gordon Brown, G
• George B. Chadwick, HB
• Clarence P. Cook, HB
• Sherman Coy, E
• Charles Dupee, E
• Ferguson, E
• William Fincke, QB
• Charles Gould, E
• Perry Hale, FB
• Chauncey J. Hamlin, G
• Henry Holt, C
• Alvan W. Hyde, FB
• Philip H. Kunzig, T
• Miller, HB
• Herman Olcott, C
• Charles D. Rafferty, E
• Ralph R. Richardson, G
• Albert Sharpe, HB
• Richard Sheldon, G
• George S. Stillman, T
• Leonard M. Thomas
• Tomlinson, T
• G. B. Ward, E
• James H. Wear, QB
• Frederick W. Wilhelmi, HB

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