1887 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1887 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as a member of the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) during the 1887 college football season. The team compiled a perfect 9–0 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 515 to 12. Quarterback Harry Beecher was the team's captain.

1887 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
IFA champion
ConferenceIntercollegiate Football Association
Record9–0 ( IFA)
Head coach
  • None
CaptainHarry Beecher
Home stadiumYale Field
1887 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale    9 0 0
Penn State    2 0 0
Harvard    10 1 0
Lafayette    7 2 0
Princeton    7 2 0
Lehigh    4 3 0
Williams    3 3 0
Penn    6 7 0
Wesleyan    4 5 0
Tufts    4 6 0
Massachusetts    2 3 0
Rutgers    2 6 0
Bucknell    0 2 0
Cornell    0 2 0
Franklin & Marshall    0 2 0
Vermont    0 2 0

There was no contemporaneous system in 1887 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.

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