The 1875 Yale Bulldogs football team represented
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
in the
1875 college football season
The 1875 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton as having been selected national champions
National champions are corporations wh ...
. The Bulldogs finished with a 2–2 record. The team won games against Rutgers and Wesleyan and lost to Harvard and Columbia.
In this season, the first
Yale vs Harvard contest was held, two years after the inaugural
Yale vs Princeton football contest. Harvard athlete Nathaniel Curtis challenged Yale's captain, William Arnold, to a
rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby union: 15 players per side
*** American flag rugby
*** Beach rugby
*** Mini rugby
*** Rugby sevens, 7 players per side
*** Rugby tens, 10 players per side
*** Snow rugby
*** Tou ...
-style game. The
next season Curtis was captain. He took one look at
Walter Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American college football player and 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 a ...
, then only 156 pounds, and told Yale captain
Gene Baker
Eugene Walter Baker (June 15, 1925 – December 1, 1999) was an American Major League Baseball infielder who played for the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates during eight seasons between 1953 and 1961, and was selected for the National League ...
"You don't mean to let that child play, do you? . . . He will get hurt."
The two teams agreed to play under a set of rules called the "Concessionary Rules", which involved Harvard conceding something to Yale's
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
and Yale conceding a great deal to Harvard's rugby.
The game featured a round ball instead of a rugby-style oblong ball,
and caused Yale to drop association football in favor of rugby.
[''THE BOSTON GAME'']
article by Michael T. Geary at academia.edu
Schedule
See also
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Yale Rugby
The Yale Bulldogs Rugby Team, or simply, Yale Rugby is the rugby union team of the Yale University. Yale has fielded a team that has played using the rugby rules since at least 1875. The school competes in the Ivy Rugby Conference and in Division ...
References
Yale
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...
Yale Bulldogs football seasons
Yale Bulldogs football
The Yale Bulldogs football program represents Yale University in college football in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). Yale's football program, founded in 1872, is one of the oldest in the world. Since ...
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