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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