1920 Yale Bulldogs football team

1920 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainTim Callahan[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1920 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College   –   8 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   6 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –   7 – 0 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 0 – 2
Army   –   7 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 1
Geneva   –   5 – 2 – 1
New Hampshire   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   6 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 3 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
Williams   –   5 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   5 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 3 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   3 – 2 – 2
Boston University   –   4 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   4 – 4 – 0
Duquesne   –   3 – 3 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 5 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   0 – 4 – 4
Tufts   –   2 – 6 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 7 – 0
Buffalo   –   1 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   1 – 5 – 2
Villanova   –   1 – 5 – 1
Drexel   –   0 – 6 – 0

The 1920 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1920 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 5–3 record under third-year head coach Tad Jones.[2] Yale guard Tim Callahan was a consensus selection for the 1920 College Football All-America Team,[3] receiving first team honors from Walter Camp,[4] the United Press,[5] and the International News Service.[6] Yale's other guard, John Acosta, also received first-team All-America honors from Walter Eckersall.[7]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2Carnegie TechW 44–0
October 9North Carolina
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–0
October 16Boston College
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 13–2130,000
October 23West Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 24–0 [8]
October 30Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–7
November 6Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–1040,000[9]
November 13at Princeton L 0–2050,000[10]
November 20Harvard
L 0–9close to 80,000[11]

References

  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1920". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 63. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1920 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. ^ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived July 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Camp Names Gridiron Stars". Post-Standard. Syracuse, NY. December 15, 1920.
  5. ^ Henry L. Farrell (December 10, 1920). "Brilliant Backs Are Features of 1920 Eleven: United Press Scribe Picks An All-American Eleven Himself". Middletown Daily Herald.
  6. ^ Jacob Velock (December 7, 1920). "Hard Task To Pick All-American Team From This Season's Galaxy of Stars". Trenton Evening Times.
  7. ^ "Weston on Second All-American Team". Janesville Daily Gazette. December 13, 1920.
  8. ^ "Mountaineers Beaten By Yale By Surprisingly Large Margin". The Pittsburg Press. October 24, 1920. p. Sporting 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Husky Brown Team Make Yale Stage Thrilling Rally". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. November 7, 1920. p. 60. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ^ Grantland Rice (November 14, 1920). "Princeton Blanks Yale 20 to 0; Worst Beating Ever Inflicted on Bulldog by Tiger". New York Tribune. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Crimson Defeats Yale By Score of 9-0: Crimson Machine Held By Savage Defense of Yale". The Hartford Courant. November 21, 1920. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.