1904 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–1
Head coach
CaptainJames Hogan
Home stadiumYale Field
1904 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn    12 0 0
Western U. of Penn.    10 0 0
Dartmouth    7 0 1
Yale    10 1 0
Amherst    9 1 0
Colgate    8 1 1
Carlisle    10 2 0
Lafayette    8 2 0
Princeton    8 2 0
Army    7 2 0
Fordham    4 1 1
Harvard    7 2 1
Dickinson    8 3 1
Columbia    7 3 0
Cornell    7 3 0
Villanova    4 2 1
Syracuse    6 3 0
Swarthmore    6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson    5 3 1
Penn State    6 4 0
Temple    3 2 0
Brown    6 5 0
Bucknell    3 3 0
Springfield Training School    4 4 1
NYU    3 6 0
Holy Cross    2 5 2
Wesleyan    3 7 0
Geneva    1 4 2
Vermont    1 5 2
New Hampshire    2 5 0
Rutgers    1 6 2
Tufts    2 9 1
Lehigh    1 8 0
Frankin & Marshall    0 10 0

The 1904 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1904 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 10–1 record under first-year head coach Charles D. Rafferty. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 220 to 20 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Army.[1]

Four Yale players (quarterback Foster Rockwell, end Tom Shevlin, tackle James Hogan, and guard Ralph Kinney) were consensus picks for the 1904 College Football All-America Team.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 WesleyanW 22–0
October 1 Trinity (CT)
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 42–0
October 5 Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0
October 8 Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 24–0
October 12 Springfield Training School
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 6–0100[3][4]
October 15 Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 17–9
October 22at Army West Point, NYL 6–11
October 29at ColumbiaW 34–0[5]
November 5 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0
November 12at Princeton Princeton, NJ (rivalry)W 12–0
November 19 Harvard
W 12–0

References

  1. "1904 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. "Close Call For Yale". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 13, 1904. p. 2. Retrieved March 28, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. "Holds Yale To 6-0 Score". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 13, 1904. p. 8. Retrieved March 28, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. "Columbia Overwhelmed By The Yale Eleven". The New York Times. October 30, 1904. p. 11 via Newspapers.com.
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