1923 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1923 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1923 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an undefeated 8–0 record under sixth-year head coach Tad Jones. Yale outscored its opponents by a combined score of 230 to 38, including a 40–0 victory over Georgia, a 31–10 victory over Army and shutout victories over rivals Princeton and Harvard.^[2] Two Yale players, tackle Century Milstead and fullback Bill Mallory, were consensus selections for the 1923 College Football All-America Team.^[3] The team was selected retroactively as a co-national champion by the Berryman QPRS system.^[4]

1923 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (QPRS)
Conference	Independent
Head coach	Tad Jones (6th season)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Captain	Bill Mallory[1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Uniform
Seasons ← 1922 1924 →

1923 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					8	–	0	–	0
St. John's			–					5	–	0	–	1
Dartmouth			–					8	–	1	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	1	–	0
Boston College			–					7	–	1	–	1
Rutgers			–					7	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	1	–	1
Holy Cross			–					8	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					6	–	1	–	2
Tufts			–					6	–	2	–	0
Army			–					6	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					6	–	2	–	1
Geneva			–					6	–	2	–	1
Lehigh			–					6	–	2	–	1
NYU			–					6	–	2	–	1
Penn State			–					6	–	2	–	1
Vermont			–					6	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	3	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					5	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	1
Columbia			–					4	–	4	–	1
Duquesne			–					4	–	4	–	0
Princeton			–					3	–	3	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
Drexel			–					2	–	6	–	0
Buffalo			–					2	–	5	–	1
Fordham			–					2	–	7	–	0
Boston University			–					1	–	6	–	0
Villanova			–					0	–	7	–	1
Temple			–					0	–	5	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	7	–	0
Springfield			–					0	–	7	–	0

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 6		North Carolina	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 53–0	20,000	[5]
October 13		Georgia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 40–0		[6]
October 20		Bucknell	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 29–14		[7][8]
October 27	2:30 p.m.	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 21–0	45,000	[9][10]
November 3		Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 31–10		[11]
November 10		Maryland	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 16–14	20,000	[12]
November 17		Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 27–0
November 24		at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 13–0
All times are in Eastern time

Roster

• Edward C. Bench
• John S. Bingham, E
• Edwin F. Blair, T
• James F. Burns
• Benjamin Butterworth, T
• Edmund P. Cottle, HB
• Joshua M. Deaver, E
• John C. Diller, T
• Richard J. Eckhart
• Caldwell B. Esselstyn, G
• Edward M. Greene
• J. Hoxie Haas, FB
• Theodore S. Hart
• Otis L. Hubbard
• Tony Hulman, E
• Houston E. Landis, C
• John J. Lincoln
• Winslow Lovejoy, C
• Richard Luman, E
• Bill Mallory, FB
• John L. Miller, T
• Century Milstead, T
• Russell W. Murphy, QB
• William H. Neale, HB
• Newell G. Neidlinger
• Norris, G
• Charles M. O'Hearn, HB
• Philip W. Pillsbury
• Ducky Pond, HB
• William L. Richeson, QB
• Riley, QB
• Henry C. Scott
• Mal Stevens, HB
• Weinecke, QB

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