The 1880 Yale Bulldogs football team represented

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in the

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. The team finished with a 4–0–1 record, did not allow opposing teams to score a single point, outscored all opponents, 30–0, and was retroactively named national champion by the

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and as co-national champion with

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by the

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and Parke H. Davis.

Schedule

Roster

* Rushers: Philo Carroll Fuller, Charles S. Beck, Louis K. Hull, John S. Harding, Benjamin B. Lamb, Charles Bigelow Storrs, Franklin M. Eaton * Quarterback:

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* Halfbacks: Robert W. Watson,

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* Back: Benjamin Wisner Bacon * Others: John L. Adams, George H. Clark, John S. Durand, Howard H. Knapp, Chester W. Lyman, John F. Merrill, John Moorhead Jr., William Nixon, William A. Peters,

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, Adrian S. Vandegraaf, Frederick R. Vernon * Manager: William B. Hill

References

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