The 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the

1903 college football season The 1903 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Michigan and Princeton as having been selected national champions. Conference standings Major conference standings ...

. The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach

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 ...

. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 206 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Princeton. Four Yale players (fullback

Ledyard Mitchell William Ledyard Mitchell (November 2, 1881 – May 18, 1964) was an American automobile executive and All-American college football player. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mitchell graduated from Yale University, where he was selected as a fullbac ...

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Charles D. Rafferty Charles Donnelly Rafferty (August 17, 1879 – October 27, 1949) was an All-American football player and coach. He played at the end position for the Yale Bulldogs football team from 1900 to 1903, was captain of Yale's 1903 football team, and was ...

, tackle James Hogan and guard

James Bloomer James Ralph Bloomer (September 17, 1880November 12, 1963) was an American football player and real estate broker. He played college football at Yale University. He was a consensus All-American in 1900 while playing at the tackle position for th ...

) were consensus picks for the

1903 College Football All-America Team The 1903 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams that season. The organizations and individuals that chose the teams included ''Collier's Weekly'' selected by Walter Camp, ...

. Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick, and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the ''San Antonio Daily Light''.

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