1896 Yale Bulldogs football team

1896 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference Independent
1896 record 13-1
Head coach Sam Thorne (1st year)

The 1896 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1896 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 13-1 record under first-year head coach Sam Thorne. The team recorded nine shutouts and won its first 13 games by a combined 212 to 29 score. It then lost its final game against rival Princeton by a 24-6 score.[1]

Two Yale players, quarterback Clarence Fincke and tackle Fred T. Murphy, were consensus picks for the 1896 College Football All-America Team.[2] Leslie's Weekly also picked three other Yale players (ends Lyman Bass and Louis Hinkey and center Burr Chamberlain) as 1896 first-team All-America players.[3]


References

  1. "Yale Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001.
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