1875 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–2
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumHamilton Park
1875 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard   –  4 –0 –0
Princeton   –  2 –0 –0
Columbia   –  4 –1 –1
Rutgers   –  1 –1 –1
Yale   –  2 –2 –0
Stevens   –  3 –3 –0
Tufts   –  0 –1 –0
NYU   –  0 –1 –0
Wesleyan   –  0 –1 –0
Bates   –  0 –1 –0
Canada All-Stars   –  0 –2 –0
CCNY   –  0 –3 –0

The 1875 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1875 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 2–2 record. The team won games against Rutgers and Wesleyan and lost to Harvard and Columbia.[1]

In this season, the first Yale vs Harvard contest was held, two years after the inaugural Yale vs Princeton football contest. Harvard athlete Nathaniel Curtis challenged Yale's captain, William Arnold, to a rugby-style game.[2][3] The next season Curtis was captain.[4] He took one look at Walter Camp, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captain Gene Baker "You don't mean to let that child play, do you? . . . He will get hurt."[5][6]

The two teams agreed to play under a set of rules called the "Concessionary Rules", which involved Harvard conceding something to Yale's soccer and Yale conceding a great deal to Harvard's rugby.[7] The game featured a round ball instead of a rugby-style oblong ball,[8] and caused Yale to drop association football in favor of rugby.[9]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
November 6Rutgers
W 4–1
November 13Harvard
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT (rivalry)
L 0–4[10][11]
November 20Wesleyan
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
W 6–0
December 4Columbia
  • Hamilton Park
  • New Haven, CT
L 2–3
Left: Program for the "Foot Ball Match", Harvard versus Yale, the first intercollegiate rugby football game between Ivy League teams. The two teams played with 15 players on a side;
right: News about the Harvard v Yale game played under the "concessionary rules" in 1875. It is considered the first rugby-style game in the US

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1875 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "First Harvard versus Yale Football Game Program, 1875 - lot - Sotheby's". sothebys.com.
  3. ↑ "Year by Year 1875". theunbalancedline.com.
  4. ↑ "Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football - All-Time Football Captains". Harvard. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Camp Curbed the Carnage". Spokane Daily Chronicle. September 8, 1962.
  6. ↑ "Star-News - Google News Archive Search". google.com.
  7. ↑ "No Christian End!" (PDF). The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889. Professional Football Researchers Association. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
  8. ↑ Parke H. Davis. Football, the American intercollegiate game. p. 64.
  9. ↑ THE BOSTON GAME article by Michael T. Geary at academia.edu
  10. ↑ "Football Game Between Harvard and Yale Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 13, 1875. p. 5. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ↑ "Foot Ball.—The Match Between Harvard And Yale – Harvard Victorious". Boston Evening Transcript. Boston, Massachusetts. November 15, 1875. p. 1. Retrieved March 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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