The 1902 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the

1902 college football season The 1902 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Michigan and Yale as having been selected national champions. Conference and program changes Conference changes *One ...

. The team finished with an 11–0–1 record, shut out eight of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 286 to 22. Joseph R. Swan was the head coach, and

George B. Chadwick George Brewster Chadwick (June 11, 1880 – October 17, 1961) was an All-American football player and coach. He played college football for Yale University from 1899 to 1902 and was the head coach of the 1903 Yale football team. After working fo ...

was the team captain. Yale was selected as the 1902 champion in the 1903 edition of the World Almanac. In 1933 Yale was retroactively named as the national co-champion, along with Michigan, by NCAA-designated "major selector"

Parke H. Davis Parke Hill Davis (July 15, 1871 – June 5, 1934)"PARKE H. DAVIS BURIED.; Many Prominent Men at Funeral of Football Authority", special to ''The New York Times'', June 9, 1934 was an American football player, coach, and historian. Shortly befo ...

. Seven Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1902 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Foster Rockwell; halfback

; end Tom Shevlin; center

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; guard Edward Glass; and tackles Ralph Kinney and James Hogan.

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