National champion (Helms, NCF) Co-national champion (Davis) IFA co-champion
Conference
Intercollegiate Football Association
Record
9–0–1 ( IFA)
Head coach
None
Captain
Robert Corwin
Home stadium
Yale Field
Seasons
← 1885
1887 →
1886 Eastern college football independents records
v
t
e
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
Yale
–
9
–
0
–
1
Princeton
–
7
–
0
–
1
Harvard
–
12
–
2
–
0
Lafayette
–
10
–
2
–
0
Williams
–
5
–
1
–
1
Massachusetts
–
2
–
1
–
0
Penn
–
9
–
7
–
1
Lehigh
–
4
–
3
–
1
Dartmouth
–
2
–
2
–
0
Amherst
–
3
–
4
–
0
Rutgers
–
1
–
3
–
0
Wesleyan
–
2
–
6
–
0
MIT
–
2
–
6
–
1
Vermont
–
0
–
1
–
0
Stevens
–
0
–
7
–
1
Tufts
–
0
–
8
–
0
NYU
–
0
–
3
–
0
Swarthmore
–
–
Trinity (CT)
–
–
The 1886 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as a member of the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) during the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 687 to 4.[1] Robert Corwin was the team captain.
There was no contemporaneous system in 1887 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2]
On Thanksgiving Day in Princeton, New Jersey, undefeated teams from Yale and Princeton met. The game started late due to the absence of a referee, and heavy rain caused the game to be called on account of darkness with Yale leading 4–0 in the second half. Under the rules of the time, the game was declared "no contest" by the substitute referee, and the final score was declared to be 0–0. After a special meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association held to review the game, the Association issued a two-part resolution: that (1) Yale should have been acknowledged the winner, but that (2) under their existing rules, the Association did not have the authority to award the game to them.[3]
^"1886 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^1886 Yale University football scores and results Archived July 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 16, 2014.
^"No Football Champions.; But Princeton Challenges Yale To Another Game On Saturday". The New York Times. November 28, 1886.
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