1911 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1911 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1911 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 7–2–1 record under first-year head coach John Field.[1]

1911 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2–1
Head coach
CaptainArt Howe
Home stadiumYale Field
Seasons
← 1910
1912 →
1911 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn State     8 0 1
Carlisle     11 1 0
Princeton     8 0 2
Trinity (CT)     6 0 2
Temple     6 1 0
Army     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Dartmouth     8 2 0
Lafayette     8 2 0
Yale     7 2 1
Harvard     6 2 1
Cornell     7 3 0
Rhode Island State     5 2 1
Brown     7 3 1
Bucknell     6 3 1
Penn     7 4 0
Pittsburgh     4 3 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 4 0
Syracuse     5 3 2
Dickinson     4 4 0
Lehigh     5 5 1
Rutgers     4 4 1
Dickinson     4 4 0
St. Bonaventure     2 2 0
Carnegie Tech     4 5 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Tufts     3 4 0
Vermont     3 5 0
NYU     1 3 3
Colgate     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     3 6 0
New Hampshire     1 5 1
Geneva     1 6 1
Villanova     0 5 1
Boston College     0 7 0

Three Yale players, end Douglas Bomeisler, center Hank Ketcham and quarterback Art Howe, were consensus picks for the 1911 College Football All-America Team. Walter Camp's son, Walter C. Camp, Jr., played at the halfback position for the 1911 Bulldogs and received second-team All-America honors from his father and from Wilton S. Farnsworth.[2][3] Yale fullback Jesse Philbin also received first-team All-America honors from Farnsworth.[3]

Schedule

edit
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 WesleyanW 21–0
September 30 Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 26–0
October 7 Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–0
October 14 VPI
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 33–0
October 21at ArmyL 0–6
October 28 Colgate
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0
November 4 NYU
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–3
November 11 Brown
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 15–0
November 18 Princeton
L 3–635,000[4][5]
November 25at Harvard T 0–0

References

edit
  1. ^ "1911 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Walter Camp Picks All-American Team: Unquestioned Football Authority of Country Selects Best Men". The Lexington Herald. December 10, 1911.
  3. ^ a b "Latest Sporting News All-American Football Team Selected by W. S. Farnsworth". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. December 10, 1911.
  4. ^ "Princeton Wins on Yale Field: Sam White Again the Hero of an Orange and Black Victory". The New York Times. November 19, 1911. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Princeton Beats Yale By White's Run". New York Tribune. November 19, 1911. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.