1898 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1898 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1898 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 9–2 record, under second-year head coach Frank Butterworth. The team recorded seven shutouts and won its first nine games by a combined 146 to 11 score. It then lost its final two games against rivals Princeton (6–0) and Harvard (17–0).

1898 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
CaptainBurr Chamberlain
Home stadiumYale Field
1898 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard    11 0 0
Drexel    7 0 0
Princeton    11 0 1
Penn    12 1 0
Buffalo    8 1 0
Cornell    10 2 0
Swarthmore    9 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    9 2 0
Yale    9 2 0
Dickinson    8 2 0
Syracuse    8 2 1
Wesleyan    7 3 0
Western Penn.    5 2 1
Brown    6 4 0
Carlisle    6 4 0
Penn State    6 4 0
Pittsburgh College    6 4 1
Army    3 2 1
Vermont    3 2 1
Holy Cross    5 4 1
Bucknell    4 4 3
Fordham    1 1 2
Frankin & Marshall    4 4 2
New Hampshire    4 4 0
Amherst    4 5 1
Villanova    2 4 1
Lehigh    3 6 1
Boston College    2 5 1
Colgate    2 5 1
Temple    2 5 0
Lafayette    3 8 0
NYU    1 3 0
Rutgers    1 6 1
Tufts    1 9 0
Geneva    0 6 1

Three Yale players, halfback Malcolm McBride and guards Burr Chamberlain and Gordon Brown, were consensus picks for the 1898 College Football All-America Team.

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