The 1923 Yale Bulldogs football team represented

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in the

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. The Bulldogs finished with an undefeated 8–0 record under sixth-year head coach Tad Jones. Yale outscored its opponents by a combined score of 230 to 38, including a 40–0 victory over

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, a 31–10 victory over Army and shutout victories over rivals Princeton and Harvard. Two Yale players, tackle

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and fullback Bill Mallory, were consensus selections for the

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.''ESPN College Football Encyclopedia'', p. 1155 The team was selected retroactively as a co-national champion by the Berryman QPRS system.

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