The Yale Bulldogs football program represents

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at the

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(formerly Division I-AA). Yale's football program is one of the oldest in the world, having begun competing in the sport in 1872. The Bulldogs have a legacy that includes 27 national championships, two of the first three

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winners (

Larry Kelley Lawrence Morgan Kelley (May 30, 1915 – June 27, 2000) was an American football player. He played at the end position for the Yale Bulldogs football program from 1934 to 1936. He was the captain of the 1936 Yale Bulldogs football team th ...

in 1936 and

Clint Frank Clinton E. Frank (September 13, 1915 – July 7, 1992) was an American football player and advertising executive. He played halfback for Yale University, where he won both the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award in 1937. In 1954, he founded t ...

in 1937), 100 consensus All-Americans, 28 College Football Hall of Fame inductees, including the "Father of American Football"

Walter Camp Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system ...

, the first professional football player

Pudge Heffelfinger William Walter "Pudge" Heffelfinger (December 20, 1867 – April 2, 1954), also spelled Hafelfinger, was an American football player and coach. He is considered the first athlete to play American football professionally, having been paid to pl ...

, and coaching giants

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, Howard Jones,

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and

Carmen Cozza Carmen Louis "Carm" Cozza (June 10, 1930 – January 4, 2018) was an American football and baseball player and coach of football. He served as the head football coach at Yale University from 1965 to 1996, winning ten Ivy League championships and ...

. With over 900 wins, Yale ranks in the top ten for most wins in

history.

History

Early history

Walter Camp - Project Gutenberg eText 18048

The Bulldogs were the dominant team in the early days of intercollegiate football, winning 27 college football national championships, including 26 in 38 years between 1872 and 1909.

, known as the "Father of Football," graduated from

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in 1876, and played

Yale College Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, ...

from 1876 to 1882. He later served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892. It was Camp who pioneered the fundamental transition of American football from rugby when in 1880, he succeeded in convincing the Intercollegiate Football Association to discontinue the rugby "scrum," and instead have players line up along a "line of scrimmage" for individual plays, which begin with the snap of the ball and conclude with the tackling of the ballcarrier. In 1916, against the advisement of coach Tad Jones, Yale quarterback Chester J. LaRoche (1918s) helped lead the Yale team in a win against Princeton by turning the momentum of the game with a fourth-down call in the huddle to go for first down rather than punt. The team made the down and went on to win the game in one of Yale's greatest victories in its history. LaRoche went on to spearhead the creation of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame.

Formation of the Ivy League

When the

Ivy League The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term ''Ivy League'' is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight schools ...

athletic conference was formed in 1955, conference rules prohibited post-season play in football. While Yale had always abstained from post-season play, other member schools had participated in

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before, and the new policy further insulated Yale and the Ivy League from the national spotlight.

NCAA Division I subdivision split

The

decided to split Division I into two subdivisions in 1978, then called I-A for larger schools, and I-AA for the smaller ones. The NCAA had devised the split, in part, with the Ivy League in mind, but the conference did not move down for four seasons despite the fact that there were many indications that the ancient eight were on the wrong side of an increasing disparity between the big and small schools. In 1982, the NCAA created a rule that stated a program's average attendance must be at least 15,000 to qualify for I-A membership. This forced the conference's hand, as only some of the member schools met the attendance qualification. Choosing to stay together rather than stand their ground separately in the increasingly competitive I-A subdivision, the Ivy League moved down into I-AA starting with the 1982 season.

Conference affiliations

Yale has been both an independent and affiliated with the Ivy League. * Independent (1872–1955) *

(1956–present)

Championships

National championships

Yale has won 27 national championships from NCAA-designated major selectors. Yale claims each of these championships.

Conference championships

Yale has won 17 conference championships, all in the

, as of 2022 with nine outright and eight shared. † Co-championship

Head coaches

Yale Head Football Coach Tony Reno confers with players

Career records of Yale head coaches.

Rivalries

Harvard

Harvard and Yale have been competing against each other in football since 1875. The annual rivalry game between the two schools, known as " The Game", is played in November at the end of the football season. As of 2022, Yale leads the series 69-61-8. The Game is the second oldest continuing rivalry and also the third most-played

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in college football history, after the Lehigh–Lafayette Rivalry (1884) and the

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–Yale game (1873). ''

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On Campus'' rated the Harvard–Yale rivalry the sixth-best in college athletics in 2003. Harvard had been unbeaten versus Yale from 2007 to 2015. The nine game winning streak was the longest during the rivalry. Yale's 21–14 victory over Harvard in Cambridge in 2016 ended the streak. The Game is significant for historical reasons as the rules of The Game soon were adopted by other schools. Football's rules, conventions, and equipment, as well as elements of "atmosphere" such as the

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and

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, include many elements pioneered or nurtured at Harvard and Yale.

Princeton

The series with

dates to 1873.

Yale Bowl

The

Yale Bowl The Yale Bowl Stadium is a college football stadium in the northeast United States, located in New Haven, Connecticut, on the border of West Haven, about 1½ miles (2½ km) west of the main campus of Yale University. The home of the American foo ...

is Yale's football

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about 1-1/2 miles west of Yale's main campus. Completed in 1914, the stadium

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61,446, reduced by renovations from the original capacity of 70,869. Ground was broken on the stadium in August 1913. It was the first bowl-shaped stadium in the country, and provided inspiration for the design of such stadiums as the

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, the Rose Bowl, and

Michigan Stadium Michigan Stadium, nicknamed "The Big House," is the football stadium for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the largest stadium in the United States and the Western Hemisphere, the third largest stadium in the world, and the ...

. Through its inspiration of the Rose Bowl stadium, its name is also the origin of college football's

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. It was the perfect setting for New Haven native Albie Booth, also known as "Little Boy Blue" to perform his heroics vs. Army in November 1929 and for the 47-yard "kick that made history" by Randall "Randy" C. Carter, '77, snapped by the stalwart center from Illinois, Ralph Bosch, '77 and surely placed by John "Nubes" Nubani, '78, in the last seconds of the 1975 Yale-Dartmouth game to win the game for Yale, 16–14. The victory lifted head coach Carm Cozza into a tie with the legendary Walter Camp for most victories by a Bulldog mentor. The current scoreboard (notable for the time clock being arranged vertically instead of horizontally) was added in 1958, and in 1986 the current press box was added. Yale hosted Penn in the first night football game at the Bowl on October 21, 2016. Penn defeated Yale in the game, 42–7. The Bowl was declared a

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in 1987.

College Football Hall of Fame inductees

As of 2017, 29 Yale Bulldogs players and coaches have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Yale players in the NFL

More than 25 players from Yale have gone on to play in the

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, including running backs

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Chuck Mercein Charles 'Chuck' Mercein (born April 9, 1943) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League for seven seasons for the New York Giants, Green Bay Packers, and New York Jets. He was drafted in the third ...

and

Chris Hetherington Chris Ray Hetherington (born November 27, 1972) is a former American football fullback in the NFL who last played for the San Francisco 49ers. He went to Yale University. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1 ...

, defensive backs

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Gary Fencik John Gary Fencik (born June 11, 1954) is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons with the Chicago Bears. He played college football at Yale University and joined ...

and Kenny Hill, tight ends

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and

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, quarterback Brian Dowling, and linemen Fritz Barzilauskas,

Century Milstead Century Allen "Wally" Milstead (January 1, 1901 – June 2, 1963) was a collegiate and professional American football player. He played college football at Wabash College and at Yale University, where his play earned him All-America recognition ...

and Mike Pyle.

All-Americans

Since the first All-American team was selected by

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in 1889, more than 100 Yale football players have been selected as first-team All-Americans. Consensus All-Americans are noted below with bold typeface. * 1889:

(End), Charles O. Gill ( T),

( G) *

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: William Rhodes ( T), Pudge Heffelfinger,

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( HB) * 1891:

Frank Hinkey Frank Augustus Hinkey (December 23, 1870 – December 30, 1925) was an American college football player and coach. He was notable for being one of only three college football players in history to be named a four-time consensus All-American. He ...

(End),

John A. Hartwell John Augustus "Josh" Hartwell (September 27, 1869 – November 30, 1940) was an American football player and coach, military officer, and physician. Hartwell attended Yale University, where he played end for Walter Camp's Bulldogs footba ...

(End),

Wallace Winter Wallace Charles Winter Sr. (August 8, 1872 – May 10, 1947) was an American college football player and coach. He played tackle at Yale University from 1890 to 1892 and was selected to the 1891 College Football All-America Team. After graduati ...

( T), Pudge Heffelfinger ( G), Lee McClung ( HB) *

1892 Events January–March * January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. * February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado. * February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for ...

: Frank Hinkey (End),

Alexander Hamilton Wallis Alexander Hamilton Wallis (March 28, 1872 – July 25, 1959) was an American college football player. He played tackle for the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University from 1890 to 1892, and was selected as an All-American in 1892. ...

( T),

Vance McCormick Vance Criswell McCormick (June 19, 1872 – June 16, 1946) was an American politician and prominent businessman from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He served as mayor of Harrisburg from 1902 to 1905 and as United States Democratic National Committee ...

( HB) * 1893: Frank Hinkey (End), Bill Hickock ( G),

Frank Butterworth Frank Seiler Butterworth Sr. (September 21, 1870 – August 21, 1950) was an American football player and coach. Butterworth attended Yale University, where he was a fullback on Yale's football teams and a member of the Skull and Bones soci ...

( HB) * 1894: Frank Hinkey (End), Anson Beard ( T), Bill Hickock ( G),

Phillip Stillman Phillip Tracy "P.T." StillmanThe 1895 Yale yearbook, ''The Yale Pot-Pourri'', at page 67, references Stillman in the "Those Who Joined Us" section: "Phillip Tracy Stillman slowly ambled into the class in the fall of Junior year, as he knew a good t ...

( C), George Adee ( QB), Frank Butterworth ( FB) * 1895: Fred Murphy ( T),

Sam Thorne Samuel Brinckerhoff "Brinck" Thorne (September 19, 1873 – June 3, 1930) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University as halfback from 1893 to 1894. As a senior and team captain in 1895, Thorn w ...

( HB) * 1896: Lyman Bass (End), Fred Murphy ( T),

Burr Chamberlain Burr Clark "B. C." Chamberlain (August 21, 1877 – November 11, 1933) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University from 1896 to 1898 at the center and tackle positions. Three times he was an All-Ame ...

( C), Clarence Fincke ( QB) * 1897:

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(End), Burr Chamberlain ( T), Rodgers ( T),

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( G), Charles Chadwick ( G), George Cadwalader ( C),

Charles de Saulles Charles A. de Saulles (November 22, 1876 – July 17, 1962) was an All-American football player. He played quarterback for Yale University and was selected for the 1897 College Football All-America Team. All-American football player A nativ ...

( QB) * 1898: Burr Chamberlain ( G), Gordon Brown ( G),

Malcolm McBride Malcolm Lee McBride (August 22, 1878 – December 21, 1941) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University as a halfback and fullback, and was selected as an All-American in 1898 and 1899. McBrid ...

( HB) * 1899:

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( T), Gordon Brown ( G), Albert Sharpe ( HB),

( FB) * 1900:

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(End), George Stillman ( T), James Bloomer ( T), Gordon Brown ( G),

Herman Olcott Herman Parker "Bo" Olcott (January 1, 1879 – November 3, 1929) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University, where he was an All-American in 1900 at center. Olcott was the head football coach at ...

( C), George Chadwick ( HB), William Finck ( HB), Albert Sharpe ( HB), Perry Hale ( FB) Charles Gould (End) * 1901: James Hogan ( T), Herman Olcott ( G), Henry Holt ( C) * 1902:

Tom Shevlin Thomas Leonard Shevlin (March 1, 1883 – December 29, 1915) was an American college football player and coach at Yale University and a businessman. He was a consensus All-American for three of his four years, selected a first-team All-American ...

(End),

Ralph Kinney Ralph Parsons Kinney Sr. (September 30, 1881 – July 1, 1956) was an American football player. He played college football for the Yale Bulldogs football team from 1902 to 1904 and was selected as a consensus All-American at the tackle position ...

( T), James Hogan ( T),

Edgar Glass Edgar Toll Glass (May 24, 1879 – April 9, 1944) was an American football player. He played college football at Syracuse University and Yale University. He was selected as a consensus All-American at the guard position in 1902. Glass played tw ...

( G), Henry Holt ( C),

Foster Rockwell Foster Haven Rockwell (August 15, 1880 – January 26, 1942) was an All-American football player and hotelier. A native of Vermont, Rockwell played football at Yale University and was selected as the quarterback on the 1902 College Football All-A ...

( QB), George Chadwick ( HB), Harold Metcalf ( HB), Morgan Bowman ( FB) * 1903:

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(End), Tom Shevlin (End), James Hogan ( T), James Bloomer ( G),

( QB), Harold Metcalf ( HB),

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 ...

( FB) * 1904: Tom Shevlin (End), Neal (End), James Hogan ( T), James Bloomer ( T),

( G),

Roswell Tripp Roswell Tripp (January 1884 – December 1962) was an American football player. Tripp attended The Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he drew his attention for his talent as a football player. Tripp enrolled at the University of ...

( G), Clint Roraback ( C), Foster Rockwell ( QB), Lydig Hoyt ( HB) * 1905: Tom Shevlin (End), Roswell Tripp ( G), Guy Hutchinson ( QB),

Howard Roome Howard Le Chevalier Roome ( – April 1931) was an American football player. He played halfback for Yale University championship teams of 1905 and 1906 and was selected by Walter Camp as a first-team All-American in 1905. Roome graduated fro ...

( HB) * 1906:

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(End),

Lucius Horatio Biglow Lucius Horatio "Ray" Biglow III (''often spelled Bigelow''; February 28, 1885 – July 9, 1961) was an American football player and coach. He played right guard for Yale University from 1905 to 1907. He was selected as an All-American in both ...

( T),

Arthur Brides Arthur E. Brides (October 31, 1885 – September 26, 1937) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1909 to 1910 and at Massachusetts Agricultural Colle ...

( G), Clarence Hockenberger ( C),

( QB),

Hugh Knox Hugh Smith Knox (January 27, 1883 – January 2, 1936) was an American football player. He played at the halfback position at Yale University and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1906. Knox was the son of Philander C. Knox, who ...

( HB),

Paul Veeder Paul Lansing Veeder (June 5, 1884 – March 10, 1942) was an All-American football player for Yale University. Veeder played halfback, fullback, quarterback and punter for the Yale Bulldogs from 1904–1906 and was selected as an All-American in ...

( FB),

Samuel F.B. Morse Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph ...

( FB) * 1907:

Clarence Alcott Clarence F. Alcott (August 9, 1886 – October 23, 1957) was an American football player, coach and investment banker. He was selected as an All-American end in both 1906 and 1907. Alcott attended University School in Cleveland, Ohio where h ...

(End), Lucius Horatio Biglow ( T), Tad Jones ( QB),

Ted Coy Edward Harris Coy (May 23, 1888 – September 8, 1935) was an American football player and coach. Coy was selected as a first-team All-American three straight years from 1907 to 1909 and was later selected as the fullback on Walter Camp's All-T ...

( FB) * 1908:

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( G),

Hamlin Andrus Hamlin Foster Andrus (March 30, 1885July 9, 1957) was an American football player and financier. He played college football at Yale University from 1908 to 1909 and was selected as a consensus All-American at the guard position in 1909. Andrus ...

( G), Ted Coy ( FB) * 1909: John Kilpatrick (End),

Henry Hobbs Henry Homer Hobbs (May 10, 1887 – June 28, 1931) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University and was selected as a consensus All-American at the tackle position in 1909. He also served as the head ...

( T), Hamlin Andrus ( G),

Carroll Cooney Carroll Trowbridge Cooney (April 1, 1887August 15, 1947) was an American football and squash player and a competitor in the hammer throw. Cooney played college football at Yale University from 1907 to 1909 at the center and guard positions. He ...

( C),

Stephen Philbin Stephen Holladay Philbin (June 7, 1888 November 13, 1973) was an American football player. He played college football at Yale University and was selected as a consensus All-American at the halfback position in 1909. Philbin was also captain of ...

( HB), Ted Coy ( FB) * 1910: John Kilpatrick (End), Jim Scully ( T), Fred J. Daly ( HB) * 1911: Douglas Bomeisler (End), Jim Scully ( T), Pomeroy Francis ( G),

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( C),

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( QB), Jesse Philbin ( FB) * 1912: Douglas Bomeisler (End), Carroll T. Cooney ( G), Hank Ketcham ( C) * 1913: Ben Avery (End),

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( T), John Pendleton ( G), Hank Ketcham ( G), William Marting ( C) * 1914: Red Brann (End), Bud Talbott ( T),

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( FB) *

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: Clinton Black ( G) * 1916:

Charles Comerford Charles Comerford was an American football player. He played at the end position for Yale University and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1916 by the International News Service and ''The Boston Post''. In 1919, Comerford joined the Y ...

(End),

George Moseley George Clark Moseley was an American football player. He played at the end position for Yale University and was chosen as a first-team All-American in 1916 by Collier's Weekly, as selected by Walter Camp. During World War I, Moseley served wit ...

(End), Clinton Black ( G), Lawrence Fox ( G) * 1920: Tim Callahan ( G), John Acosta ( G) * 1921:

Malcolm Aldrich Malcolm Pratt "Mac" Aldrich (October 1, 1900 – July 31, 1986) was an American football player for the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University from 1919 to 1921. He was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American at the halfback ( ...

( HB) *

1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...

: Harry Cross ( G), Phillip Cruikshank ( G) * 1923:

( T),

Bill Mallory William Guy Mallory (May 30, 1935 – May 25, 2018) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Miami University (1969–1973), the University of Colorado at Boulder (1974–1978), Northern Illinois Universi ...

( FB) * 1924: Richard Luman (End),

Johnny Joss John Hubbard Joss (March 18, 1902 – March 22, 1955) was an American football player, lawyer, and government official. Early years Joss was born in Indianapolis in 1902. He attended the Taft School in Connecticut before enrolling at Yale Co ...

( T), Winslow Lovejoy ( C),

Ducky Pond Raymond W. "Ducky" Pond (February 17, 1902 – August 25, 1982) was an American football and baseball player and football coach. He was the head football coach at Yale University from 1934 to 1940, and at Bates College in 1941 and from 1946 to 195 ...

( HB) *

1925 Events January * January 1 ** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...

( T), Herbert Sturhahn ( G) * 1926: Herbert Sturhahn ( G) * 1927:

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(End), Sidney Quarrier ( T),

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( G), John Charlesworth ( C), Bruce Caldwell ( HB) * 1929: Wade Greene ( G), Albie Booth ( QB) * 1930:

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( G) * 1932: Robert Lassiter ( HB) * 1936:

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References

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* {{Yale American football teams established in 1872 1872 establishments in Connecticut

History

Early history

Formation of the Ivy League

NCAA Division I subdivision split

Conference affiliations

Championships

National championships

Conference championships

Head coaches

Rivalries

Harvard

Princeton

Yale Bowl

College Football Hall of Fame inductees

Yale players in the NFL

All-Americans

See also

References

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