1907 Yale Bulldogs football team

1907 Yale Bulldogs football
Consensus national champion
Conference	Independent
1907 record	9–0–1
Head coach	William F. Knox (1st year)
Captain	Lucius Horatio Bigelow
Home stadium	Yale Field

The 1907 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1907 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Caspar Whitney, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, the National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.^[1]^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 2	Wesleyan*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 25–0
October 5	Syracuse*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 11–0
October 9	Springfield*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 18–0
October 12	Holy Cross*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 52–0
October 19	at Army*	The Plain • West Point, NY	T 0–0
October 26	Villanova*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 45–0
November 2	Washington & Jefferson*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 11–0
November 9	Brown*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 22–0
November 16	Princeton*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 12–10
November 23	at Harvard*	Harvard Stadium • Allston, MA (The Game)	W 12–0
*Non-conference game.

References

↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
↑ 1907 Yale University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on April 11, 2014.

1907 Yale Bulldogs football—national champions

Clarence Alcott Lucius Horatio Biglow Arthur Brides Robert Burch Ted Coy William Goebel Howard Jones T. A. Dwight Jones Stephen Philbin Head coach William F. Knox

Yale Bulldogs football

Venues	Hamilton Park (1872–83) Yale Field (1884–1913) Yale Bowl (1914–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Brown Dartmouth Harvard (list) Penn Princeton

Culture & lore	1968 Harvard game (Harvard Beats Yale 29-29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank Handsome Dan "Boola Boola" "Down the Field"

People	Head coaches NFL draftees

Seasons	1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

College football national champions (pre-AP Poll)

1869–1879	1869: Princeton / Rutgers 1870: Princeton 1872: Princeton / Yale 1873: Princeton 1874: Harvard / Princeton / Yale 1875: Columbia / Harvard / Princeton 1876: Yale 1877: Princeton / Yale 1878: Princeton 1879: Princeton

1880s	1880: Princeton / Yale 1881: Princeton / Yale 1882: Yale 1883: Yale 1884: Princeton / Yale 1885: Princeton 1886: Princeton / Yale 1887: Yale 1888: Yale 1889: Princeton

1890s	1890: Harvard 1891: Yale 1892: Yale 1893: Princeton / Yale 1894: Penn / Princeton / Yale 1895: Penn / Yale 1896: Lafayette / Princeton 1897: Penn / Yale 1898: Harvard / Princeton 1899: Harvard / Princeton

1900s	1900: Yale 1901: Harvard / Michigan / Yale 1902: Michigan / Yale 1903: Michigan / Princeton 1904: Michigan / Minnesota / Penn 1905: Chicago / Yale 1906: Princeton / Yale 1907: Yale 1908: Harvard / LSU / Penn 1909: Yale

1910s	1910: Harvard / Pittsburgh 1911: Penn State / Princeton 1912: Harvard / Penn State 1913: Auburn / Chicago / Harvard 1914: Army / Illinois / Texas 1915: Cornell / Minnesota / Oklahoma / Pittsburgh 1916: Army / Georgia Tech / Pittsburgh 1917: Georgia Tech 1918: Michigan / Pittsburgh 1919: Centre / Harvard / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M

1920s	1920: California / Georgia / Harvard / Notre Dame / Princeton 1921: California / Cornell / Iowa / Lafayette / Washington & Jefferson / Vanderbilt 1922: California / Cornell / Princeton / Vanderbilt 1923: Cal / Cornell / Illinois / Michigan / Yale 1924: Notre Dame / Penn 1925: Alabama / Dartmouth / Michigan 1926: Alabama / Lafayette / Michigan / Navy / Stanford 1927: Georgia / Illinois / Notre Dame / Texas A&M / Yale 1928: Detroit / Georgia Tech / USC 1929: Notre Dame / Pittsburgh / USC

1930s	1930: Alabama / Notre Dame 1931: Pittsburgh / Purdue / USC 1932: Colgate / Michigan / USC 1933: Michigan / Ohio State / Princeton / USC 1934: Alabama / Minnesota 1935: LSU / Minnesota / Princeton / SMU / TCU

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