1904 Yale Bulldogs football team
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American college football season
| 1904 Yale Bulldogs football | |
|---|---|
| Conference | Independent |
| Record | 10–1 |
| Head coach |
|
| Captain | James Hogan |
| Home stadium | Yale Field |
Seasons | |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||
| Penn | – | 12 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||
| Western U. of Penn. | – | 10 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||
| Dartmouth | – | 7 | – | 0 | – | 1 | ||||
| Yale | – | 10 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||
| Amherst | – | 9 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||
| Colgate | – | 8 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||
| Carlisle | – | 10 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||
| Lafayette | – | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||
| Princeton | – | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||
| Army | – | 7 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||
| Fordham | – | 4 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||
| Harvard | – | 7 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||
| Dickinson | – | 8 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||
| Columbia | – | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Cornell | – | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Villanova | – | 4 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||
| Syracuse | – | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Swarthmore | – | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Washington & Jefferson | – | 5 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||
| Penn State | – | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||
| Temple | – | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||
| Brown | – | 6 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||
| Bucknell | – | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||
| Springfield Training School | – | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||
| NYU | – | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||
| Holy Cross | – | 2 | – | 5 | – | 2 | ||||
| Wesleyan | – | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||
| Geneva | – | 1 | – | 4 | – | 2 | ||||
| Vermont | – | 1 | – | 5 | – | 2 | ||||
| New Hampshire | – | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||
| Rutgers | – | 1 | – | 6 | – | 2 | ||||
| Tufts | – | 2 | – | 9 | – | 1 | ||||
| Lehigh | – | 1 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||
| Frankin & Marshall | – | 0 | – | 10 | – | 0 | ||||
The 1904 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1904 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 10–1 record under first-year head coach Charles D. Rafferty. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 220 to 20 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Army.[1]
Four Yale players (quarterback Foster Rockwell, end Tom Shevlin, tackle James Hogan, and guard Ralph Kinney) were consensus picks for the 1904 College Football All-America Team.[2]
Schedule
[edit ]| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 28 | Wesleyan | W 22–0 | [3] | ||
| October 1 | Trinity (CT) |
| W 42–0 | ||
| October 5 | Holy Cross |
| W 23–0 | ||
| October 8 | Penn State |
| W 24–0 | ||
| October 12 | Springfield Training School |
| W 6–0 | 100 | [4] [5] |
| October 15 | Syracuse |
| W 17–9 | [6] | |
| October 22 | at Army | West Point, NY | L 6–11 | [7] | |
| October 29 | at Columbia | W 34–0 | [8] | ||
| November 5 | Brown |
| W 22–0 | ||
| November 12 | at Princeton | Princeton, NJ (rivalry) | W 12–0 | ||
| November 19 | Harvard |
| W 12–0 | [9] |
Roster
[edit ]- James Bloomer, T
- John M. Cates, E
- Arthur G. Erwin, G
- Carl S. Flanders
- A. Rex Flinn, FB
- Gilles, G
- Morin S. Hare, E
- James Hogan, T
- Lydig Hoyt, HB
- Guy Hutchinson, QB
- Willard Hyatt
- James P. Kineon, T
- Ralph Kinney, G
- Kockenberger, G
- Jack Leavenworth, HB
- Donald F. MacKay
- P. Morse, FB
- Frank McCoy
- Samuel Finley Brown Morse, HB
- Chester T. Neal, E
- Ortmayer, E
- Jack Owsley
- James John Quill, HB
- Foster Rockwell, QB
- Howard Roome, HB
- J. Clinton Roraback, C
- Carleton Shaw
- Tom Shevlin, FB
- John A. Stevenson, HB
- Stewart, E
- Charles B. Stuart
- Roswell Tripp, G
- H. Turner, G
- Paul Veeder, HB
- Frank E. Warnecken
- Edwin White, FB
References
[edit ]- ^ "1904 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ^ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
- ^ "Eli Eleven Made Several Blunders". The Day. September 29, 1904. p. 2.
- ^ "Close Call For Yale". Hartford Courant . Hartford, Connecticut. October 13, 1904. p. 2. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon .
- ^ "Holds Yale To 6-0 Score". Chicago Tribune . Chicago, Illinois. October 13, 1904. p. 8. Retrieved March 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon .
- ^ "The Football Scores". The Troy Northern Budget. October 16, 1904. p. 2.
- ^ "Yale Meets Defeat". The Troy Northern Budget. October 23, 1904. p. 2.
- ^ "Columbia Overwhelmed By The Yale Eleven". The New York Times. October 30, 1904. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Harvard-Yale Football Game". Easton Free Press. November 19, 1904. p. 1.
- ^ "All-Time Lettermen (DOC)". Yale University Athletics. Retrieved January 29, 2025.