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The Bulldogs were the dominant team in the early days of intercollegiate football, winning 27 college football national championships, including 26 in 38 years between 1872 and 1909. [3] Walter Camp , known as the "Father of Football", graduated from Hopkins Grammar School in 1876, and played college football at Yale College from 1876 to 1882.
This page lists the Ivy League football champions.
This is a list of seasons completed by the Yale Bulldogs football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). [1] Since the team's inaugural 1872 season, Yale has participated in more than 1,300 officially sanctioned games, holding an all-time record of 937–390–55. [ 2 ]
The Yale Bulldogs are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut.The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won two NCAA national championships in women's fencing, four in men's swimming and diving, 21 in men's golf, one in men's hockey, one in men's lacrosse, and 16 in sailing.
The concept of a national championship in college football dates to the early years of the sport in the late 19th century. [13] Some of the earliest contemporaneous rankings can be traced to Caspar Whitney in Harper's Weekly, J. Parmly Paret in Outing, [14] Charles Patterson, [15] and New York newspaper The Sun. [16]
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.
Charles Donnelly Rafferty (August 17, 1879 – October 27, 1949) was an All-American football player and coach. He played at the end position for the Yale Bulldogs football team from 1900 to 1903, was captain of Yale's 1903 football team, and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1903. He also served as the head coach of the Yale ...
The 1927 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1927 college football season. The team finished with a 7–1 record, shut out four opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 157 to 32. [3] The team was rated as one of the greatest to ever represent Yale. [4]