1891 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1891 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1891 college football season. The team finished with a 13–0 record and a 488-0 season score. It was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis. Yale's 1891 season was part of a 37-game winning streak that began with the final game of the 1890 season and stopped at the end of the 1893 season.

1891 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion
IFA champion
ConferenceIntercollegiate Football Association
Record13–0 ( IFA)
Head coach
  • Walter Camp (4th season)
CaptainLee McClung
Home stadiumYale Field
1891 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale    13 0 0
Harvard    13 1 0
Princeton    12 1 0
Tufts    7 1 0
Penn    11 2 0
Colgate    4 1 0
Army    4 1 1
Navy    5 2 0
Cornell    7 3 0
Geneva    4 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    4 2 0
Lehigh    7 4 0
Delaware    5 3 1
Rutgers    8 6 0
Brown    4 6 0
Springfield YMCA    5 8 1
Fordham    1 2 1
Syracuse    4 7 0
Massachusetts    2 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.    2 6 0
Lafayette    2 9 1
Columbia    1 5 0
Wesleyan    1 6 0

Five Yale players were selected by Caspar Whitney to the 1891 All-America college football team: halfback and team captain Lee McClung; ends Frank Hinkey and John A. Hartwell; tackle Wallace Winter; and guard Pudge Heffelfinger. Camp also selected the following Yale players to his second team: quarterback Frank Barbour; halfback Laurie Bliss; guard Samuel Morison; and center George Sanford.

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