1898 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1898 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1898 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 9–2 record, under second-year head coach Frank Butterworth. The team recorded seven shutouts and won its first nine games by a combined 146 to 11 score. It then lost its final two games against rivals Princeton (6–0) and Harvard (17–0).^[1]

1898 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	9–2
Head coach	Frank Butterworth (2nd season)
Captain	Burr Chamberlain
Home stadium	Yale Field
Seasons ← 1897 1899 →

1898 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					11	–	0	–	0
Drexel			–					7	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo			–					8	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					9	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					9	–	2	–	0
Dickinson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan			–					7	–	3	–	0
Western Penn.			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					6	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Vermont			–					3	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross			–					5	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	3
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	4	–	2
New Hampshire			–					4	–	4	–	0
Amherst			–					4	–	5	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	5	–	0
Lafayette			–					3	–	8	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					1	–	9	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	6	–	1

Three Yale players, halfback Malcolm McBride and guards Burr Chamberlain and Gordon Brown, were consensus picks for the 1898 College Football All-America Team.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	3:30 p.m.	at Trinity (CT)	Trinity grounds Hartford, CT	W 18–0		^[3]^[4]
October 1		Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 5–0		^[5]
October 5		Amherst	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 34–0		^[6]
October 8		Williams	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 23–0		^[7]
October 15		at Newton Athletic Association	Newton, MA	W 6–0		^[8]
October 19		Brown	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 22–6		^[9]
October 22		Carlisle	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 18–5	2,500	^[10]^[11]
October 29		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	W 10–0	5,000	^[12]
November 5		Chicago Athletic Association	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 10–0		^[13]
November 12		at Princeton	Brokaw Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–6	16,500	^[14]
November 19		Harvard	Yale Field New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–17	17,500	^[15]^[16]
All times are in Eastern time

References

1. "1898 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. "Yale-Trinity Football Game". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. September 24, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved March 27, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
4. "Yale's First Game: The New Have Collegians Defeat Trinity 18 to 0". The Times (Philadelphia). September 25, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Yale's Small Score". The Times (Philadelphia). October 2, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale Plays Fiercely: Puts Up a Game That Greatly Pleases Her Supporters". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 6, 1898. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Yale Makes Twenty-Three: And Is Nearly Scored on in the Last Half by Williams". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 9, 1898. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Narrow Escape: Yale Defeated the Newton A.A. Team, But It Was by a Narrow Margin". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 16, 1898. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Brown Scores on Yale". Chicago Tribune. October 20, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Indians Score At Yale: Hudson Drops a Wonderful Goal From The 45-Yard Line". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1898. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Yale, 18; Carlisle Indians, 5". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 23, 1898. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Fall In Brilliant Defeat: West Point Beaten By Yale After a Game Struggle". Chicago Tribune. October 30, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Yale, 10; Chicago A.A., 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 6, 1898. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Princeton Is Victorious". The New York Times. November 13, 1898. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Harvard Supreme: Yale Lowers Her Colors to the Invincible Crimson Eleven". The Boston Globe. November 20, 1898. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Harvard Is The Victor". The New York Times. November 20, 1898. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.