1894 Yale Bulldogs football team

1894 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record16–0
Head coach
CaptainFrank Hinkey
Home stadiumYale Field
1894 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   16 – 0 – 0
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Villanova   –   1 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   11 – 2 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 1 – 0
Holy Ghost College   –   7 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   10 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   2 – 1 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 4 – 1
Amherst   –   7 – 5 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   4 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 5 – 0
Massachusetts   –   3 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   5 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn   –   1 – 1 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   4 – 6 – 0
Lehigh   –   5 – 9 – 0
Williams   –   1 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 3 – 0
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   1 – 6 – 0
Carlisle   –   1 – 8 – 0
Buffalo   –   0 – 2 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 3 – 0
Wesleyan   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1894 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1894 college football season. The team finished with a 16–0 record, shut out 13 of 16 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 485 to 13.[1] William Rhodes was the head coach, and Frank Hinkey was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1894 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2]

Five Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1894 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback George Adee, fullback Frank Butterworth, end Frank Hinkey, center Phillip Stillman, and guard Bill Hickok.[3]

The Bulldogs' 16–0 record was not matched again at any level of college football until 125 years later when North Dakota State won the 2019 FCS National Championship.[4] In 2026, Indiana matched the record in the CFP National Championship with a victory over Miami (FL) for its first national championship.[5]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29at Trinity (CT)Hartford, CTW 42–0[6]
October 3Brown
W 28–02,500[7]
October 6at Crescent Athletic Club
W 10–03,000[8]
October 10Williams
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–4[9]
October 13Lehigh
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–0[10]
October 17vs. Dartmouth
W 34–0700[11][12]
October 20at Orange Athletic Club
W 24–02,500[13]
October 24Boston Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0[14]
October 27at Army
W 12–56,000[15]
October 31Volunteer (NY) Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 42–0[16]
November 33:15 p.m.at Brown
W 12–05,000[17][18]
November 7Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 67–0[19]
November 10vs. Lehigh
W 50–0[20]
November 14Chicago Athletic Association
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 48–01,500[21]
November 24vs. Harvard
  • Hampden Park
  • Springfield, MA (rivalry)
W 12–423,000[22]
December 12:08 p.m.vs. Princeton
W 24–020,000–30,000[23][24][25][26]

Roster

[27]

References

  1. ^ a b "1894 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "North Dakota State beats James Madison, wins eighth FCS title". ESPN.com. Associated Press. January 11, 2020. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  5. ^ Singh, Sanjesh (January 19, 2026). "Live updates: Indiana beats Miami 27-21 in CFP National Championship game". www.nbcmiami.com. NBC Miami. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
  6. ^ "Yale, 44; Trinity, 0". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. September 30, 1894. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yale 28, Brown 0". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 4, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
  8. ^ "On the Gridiron: Yale Surprised at the Crescent Team's Strength". The Brooklyn Citizen. October 7, 1894. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Yale Scored Against Williams by the Williams Football Team -- Captain Hinckey is Charged with Kicking a Man". Boston Evening Transcript. October 11, 1894. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Yale Walks Over Lehigh". The Philadelphia Times. October 14, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Yale 34, Dartmouth 0". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 18, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
  12. ^ "Yales Wins Over Dartmouth". Boston Evening Transcript. Boston, Massachusetts. October 18, 1894. p. 5. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
  13. ^ "Yale, 24; Orange A.C, O". The Sun. October 21, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Small Score: B.A.A. Holds Yale Down to 23 Points". The Boston Globe. October 25, 1894. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Yale 12, West Point 5". The Boston Globe. October 28, 1894. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "'Twas Easy for Yale: The Volunteers Make a Weak Showing Against the Blue's Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 1, 1894. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Yale 12, Brown 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 4, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
  18. ^ "Brown's Plucky Fight". New York Tribune. New York, New York. November 4, 1894. p. 9. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
  19. ^ "Yale's Big Score: The Blue Beats Tufts College Sixty-seven to Nothing". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 8, 1894. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Yale's Heavy Scoring: With Many Substitutions She Rolls Up Fifty Points on Lehigh". The Philadelphia Times. November 11, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "Yale Scores 48". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 15, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
  22. ^ "Yale 12, Harvard 4". The Boston Globe. November 25, 1894. pp. 1, 2, 4 – via NewspaperArchive.
  23. ^ "Yale, 24 Princeton, 0: The Blue Has an Easy Triumph Over the Tiger". The Philadelphia Times. December 2, 1894. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "Tigers Downed". The Sunday Times. Minneapolis, Minnesota. December 2, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
  25. ^ "Yale 24, Princeton 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. December 2, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
  26. ^ "Yale 24, Princeton 0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. December 2, 1894. p. 4. Retrieved March 8, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
  27. ^ "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.
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