1889 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1889 college football season. In their second season under head coach Walter Camp, Yale compiled a 15–1 record, held opponents scoreless in 12 games, and outscored all opponents by a total of 659 to 31. Its only loss was in the final game of the season against rival Princeton by a 10–0 score.

1889 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record15–1
Head coach
  • Walter Camp (2nd season)
CaptainCharles O. Gill
Home stadiumYale Field
1889 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton    10 0 0
Massachusetts    2 0 0
Yale    15 1 0
Harvard    9 2 0
Franklin & Marshall    5 1 1
Dickinson    4 1 1
Navy    4 1 1
Tufts    3 1 0
Lehigh    8 3 2
Cornell    8 4 0
Penn    7 6 0
Brown    2 2 0
Penn State    2 2 0
Delaware    1 1 1
Wesleyan    5 7 1
Bucknell    2 3 1
Lafayette    3 4 2
Columbia    2 7 2
Fordham    1 3 0
Rutgers    1 4 0
NYU    0 2 0

Three Yale players (end Amos Alonzo Stagg, guard Pudge Heffelfinger and tackle Charles O. Gill) were named to the 1889 College Football All-America Team, the first college football All-America team as selected by Caspar Whitney. Stagg and Heffelfinger have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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