1903 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Field
1903 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton   –  11 –0 –0
Yale   –  11 –1 –0
Columbia   –  9 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –  9 –1 –0
Geneva   –  9 –1 –0
Holy Cross   –  8 –2 –0
Temple   –  4 –1 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –  8 –2 –0
Lehigh   –  9 –2 –1
Harvard   –  9 –3 –0
Penn   –  9 –3 –0
Army   –  6 –2 –1
Carlisle   –  6 –2 –1
Amherst   –  7 –3 –0
Lafayette   –  7 –3 –0
Cornell   –  6 –3 –1
Colgate   –  4 –2 –1
Penn State   –  5 –3 –0
Swarthmore   –  6 –4 –0
Brown   –  5 –4 –1
Syracuse   –  5 –4 –0
Fordham   –  1 –1 –0
Frankin & Marshall   –  5 –5 –1
Buffalo   –  4 –4 –0
Rutgers   –  4 –4 –1
Delaware   –  4 –4 –0
Villanova   –  2 –2 –0
Bucknell   –  4 –5 –0
Vermont   –  4 –5 –0
Tufts   –  5 –8 –0
Wesleyan   –  3 –6 –1
Springfield Training School   –  1 –3 –1
NYU   –  2 –5 –0
New Hampshire   –  2 –6 –1
Pittsburgh College   –  1 –5 –1
Western U. Penn.   –  1 –8 –1

The 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1903 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach George B. Chadwick. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 206 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Princeton.[1]

Four Yale players (fullback Ledyard Mitchell, end Charles D. Rafferty, tackle James Hogan and guard James Bloomer) were consensus picks for the 1903 College Football All-America Team.[2] Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick,[3] and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the San Antonio Daily Light.[4]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26Trinity (CT)
W 35–0
September 30Tufts
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
October 3Vermont
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 46–0[5]
October 7Wesleyan
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 33–0
October 10Springfield Training School
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 22–0[6]
October 14Holy Cross
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–10[7]
October 17Penn State
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–0
October 24at Army
W 17–5
October 31at Columbia
W 25–0[8]
November 7Syracuse
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
W 30–0
November 14Princeton
L 6–1130,000[9][10]
November 212:00 p.m.at Harvard
W 16–037,000[11][12][13][14][15][16]

References

  1. ↑ "1903 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. ↑ "Crack Football Eleven". Los Angeles Times. November 30, 1903.
  4. ↑ "The Ideal All-American Team". San Antonio Daily Light. December 14, 1903.
  5. ↑ "Yale 46, Vermont 0". The New York Times. October 4, 1903. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Gave Yale A Battle". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 1903. p. 10. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ↑ "Holy Cross surprises Yale". Journal and Courier. October 15, 1903. p. 1. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Yale's football victory". The New York Times. November 1, 1903. p. 13. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Princeton Wins Big Football Game: Yale Beaten at New Haven in Grand Contest by 11 to 6". The New York Times. November 15, 1903. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Princeton, Rah! Yale Swallows An 11-6 Defeat On Home Ground Before Ancient Rival". The Sun. New York, N.Y. November 15, 1903. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ↑ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 7. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ↑ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard And Yale Ready For The Fray (continued)". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 8. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. ↑ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Harvard Fight Hard But Yale Wins 16-0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ↑ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Yale Wins 16-0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 5. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  16. ↑ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (November 21, 1903). "Yale Wins 16-0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 9. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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