1876 Yale Bulldogs football team

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The 1876 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1876 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0 record and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2] The Yale team defeated rival Harvard for the first time. Walter Camp also played for the first time.[3] The team's captain was Eugene V. Baker.

Harvard-Yale lineups
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Record3–0
Headcoach
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1876 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainEugene V. Baker
Home stadiumHamilton Park
Seasons
← 1875
1877 â†’
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1876 college football records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale â€“ 3–0–0
Rutgers â€“ 1–0–0
Harvard â€“ 3–1–0
Princeton â€“ 3–2–0
Stevens â€“ 2–2–0
CCNY â€“ 1–1–0
Penn â€“ 1–2–0
Columbia â€“ 1–3–0
Canada All-Stars â€“ 0–1–0
McGill â€“ 0–1–0
Northwestern â€“ 0–1–0
Philadelphia All-Stars â€“ 0–1–0
NYU â€“ 0–2–0
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The Princeton-Yale matchup effectively decided the national championship after Princeton defeated Columbia. Thompson and Camp executed the first "legal" forward pass in football history. Early in the game, Camp ran for a good gain on a play, however when he was finally tackled, he threw the ball forward to O. D. Thompson, who ran for a touchdown. The Princeton players protested the play. Since the rules of football were still unclear in 1876, a coin toss was used by the referee to decide if the play stood. Yale won the toss and the touchdown stood.

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 183:00 p.m.HarvardW 1–02,000[4][5]
November 30vs. Princeton
W 2–0>1,000[6]
December 93:20 p.m.vs. Columbia
  • St. George's Cricket Club
  • Hoboken, NJ
W 2–0[7][8]
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