1880 Yale Bulldogs football team

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The 1880 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1880 college football season. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record, did not allow opposing teams to score a single point, outscored all opponents, 30–0, and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report and as co-national champion with Princeton by the National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

ConferenceIndependent
Record4–0–1
Headcoach
  • None
Quick facts Yale Bulldogs football, Conference ...
1880 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Billingsley)
Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–0–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainRobert W. Watson
Home stadiumHamilton Park
Seasons
← 1879
1881 â†’
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1880 college football records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton â€“ 4–0–1
Yale â€“ 4–0–1
Kentucky University â€“ 2–0–0
Michigan â€“ 1–0–0
Harvard â€“ 2–2–2
Penn â€“ 2–2–0
Rutgers â€“ 2–2–0
Columbia â€“ 1–2–0
Amherst â€“ 0–1–1
Massachusetts â€“ 0–1–1
Stevens â€“ 1–4–0
Brown â€“ 0–1–0
CCNY â€“ 0–1–0
Philadelphia Crescent AC â€“ 0–1–0
Toronto â€“ 0–1–0
Centre â€“ 0–2–0
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Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 103:00 p.m.ColumbiaW 13–0600[3][4]
November 13Brown
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 8–0250[5]
November 17vs. PennW 8–0500[6][7]
November 202:45 p.m.at HarvardW 1–0700[8]
November 252:30 p.m.vs. Princeton
T 0–04,000[9][10]
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Roster

  • Rushers: Philo Carroll Fuller, Charles S. Beck, Louis K. Hull, John S. Harding, Benjamin B. Lamb, Charles Bigelow Storrs, Franklin M. Eaton
  • Quarterback: Walter Irving Badger
  • Halfbacks: Robert W. Watson, Walter Camp
  • Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon
  • Others: John L. Adams, George H. Clark, John S. Durand, Howard H. Knapp, Chester W. Lyman, John F. Merrill, John Moorhead Jr., William Nixon, William A. Peters, Frederic Remington, Adrian S. Van de Graaff, Frederick R. Vernon
  • Manager: William B. Hill

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