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TIMELINE of YALE FOOTBALL Updated As of February 2018 TIMELINE OF YALE FOOTBALL Updated as of February 2018 Oct. 31, 1872 David Schley Schaff, Elliot S. Miller, Samuel Elder and other members of the class of 1873 call a meeting of the Yale student body. From it emerges the Yale Football Association, the first formal entity to govern the game at Yale. Schaff is elected president and team captain. Nov. 16, 1872 With faculty approval, Yale meets Columbia, the nearest football-playing college, at Hamilton Park in New Haven. The game is essentially soccer with 20-man sides, played on a field 400 by 250 feet. Yale wins 3-0, Tommy Sherman scoring the first goal and Lew Irwin the other two. Nov. 15, 1873 Yale and Princeton inaugurate what will become Yale’s longest rivalry. Princeton wins 3 goals to 0. Nov. 13, 1875 Yale and Harvard meet for the first time at Hamilton Park. The game is played under the so-called “concessionary rules”—15 players on a side and running with the ball permitted as in rugby, a round ball and only goals counting as in soccer. A crowd of 2,000 pays 50 cents a head—twice the normal price for a Yale game—to watch Harvard win 4-0. 1880 Walter Camp, in his third year as Yale’s delegate at the Intercollegiate Football Association rules convention, persuades the meeting to accept 11-man, rather than 15-man, sides. He also replaces rugby’s scrum with the scrimmage, which “takes place when the holder of the ball…puts it down on the ground in front of him and puts it in play by snapping it back with his foot.” Nov. 24, 1881 Princeton, using stalling tactics, holds Yale to a 0-0 tie after two overtimes. Camp’s response is to create the downs system in the rules for 1882. A team must gain 5 yards in three downs, retreat 10 yards or give up the ball. 1883 Camp completes the basic structure of American football by instituting numerical scoring values: touchdown, 2 points; goal after touchdown, 4; field goal, 5; safety, 1. In stages over the next 29 years, the will gain value at the expense of goal-kicking. By 1912 a TD is 6 points, a conversion 1, field goal 3 and safety 2. The 2-point conversion, discussed in Camp’s lifetime, will be added in 1958. Oct. 1, 1884 Yale plays for the first time at the original Yale Field on Derby Avenue (across the street from Yale Bowl). The Blue beats Wesleyan 31-0. Nov. 5, 1884 Wyllys Terry sets a record that still stands by running the length of the field—110 yards—to score in a 46-0 defeat of Wesleyan. Oct. 30, 1886 Wesleyan is the victim of another record as Yale’s Henry Beecher scores 11 touchdowns in a game. Yale wins by its highest score ever, 136-0. 1888 Yale completes a 13-game schedule unbeaten, untied and unscored upon, piling up 698 points. 1889 Yale places three men—Pudge Heffelfinger, Charley Gill and Amos Alonzo Stagg—among the 11 on the first All-America team. Sportswriter Caspar Whitney publishes the selections in his magazine The Week’s Sport, apparently with input from Walter Camp. The same year, Handsome Dan, the Yale bulldog, appears at his first football game, becoming the first collegiate mascot. 1890 Amos Alonzo Stagg, Yale degree in hand, takes the football coaching job at Springfield YMCA College. It’s the start of a head coaching career that won’t end until December 1946. Nov. 27, 1890 A crowd of 30,000 at Eastern Park in Brooklyn sees T. Lee “Bum” McClung score four touchdowns in a 32-0 rout of Princeton. Yale’s share of the gate, $11,185, brings football revenues for the year to $18,392, enough to pay for the entire athletic program. Sept. 20, 1892 Walter Camp receives a letter: “Will you kindly furnish me with some points on the best way to develop a good football team. I am…connected with this University and have been asked to coach the team.” It’s signed by James Kivlan, University of Notre Dame. November 1892 After coaching Yale to a 67-2 record in five seasons, Walter Camp heads west and becomes part- time coach of Stanford. He’ll leave active coaching in 1895 with a career record of 79-5-3. Nov. 24, 1894 Yale, led by four-time All-American Frank Hinkey at end, defeats Harvard 12-4 in a match of unbeaten teams in Springfield, Mass. The game is so violent that the schools suspend relations until 1897. Nov. 24, 1900 Yale’s “Team of the Century,” with four-time All-American Gordon Brown at guard, crushes previously unbeaten Harvard 28-0 at Yale Field to complete a 12-0 season. Some in the crowd of 22,000 try out a new Yale song: “Boola, Boola.” Nov. 12, 1904 Another Yale song, “Down the Field,” makes its debut at Princeton’s University Field, where Yale shuts out the Tigers 12-0. Jan. 27, 1906 In response to deaths and injuries in 1905 games, the football rules committee agrees to sweeping changes, making the forward pass legal for the first time. The committee’s 14 members include three Yale men: Walter Camp; A.A. Stagg, coach at the University of Chicago; and Dr. Harry Williams, coach at Minnesota. 1909 Yale grad Howard Jones, destined to become a coaching legend at Southern California, hits the jackpot in his one season coaching his alma mater. Yale goes undefeated, untied and unscored-on in 10 games, blanking previously unbeaten Harvard 8-0 in the finale. Oct. 17, 1914 Notre Dame comes to Yale Field with a 27-game unbeaten streak and leaves a 28-0 loser. Knute Rockne, in 1914 an assistant coach at Notre Dame, later will call the defeat “the most valuable lesson Notre Dame ever had in football. It taught us never to be cocksure.” Nov. 21, 1914 Yale Bowl, largest stadium yet built in America, opens with a capacity crowd of 70,000. Only those on the visitors’ side are happy as Harvard triumphs, 36-0. Sept. 30, 1916 Yale players wear jersey numbers for the first time in a 25-0 victory over Carnegie Tech. Captain Cupe Black, a guard, is issued No. 1. 1918 With World War I raging, Yale suspends football for a year. Among the war’s victims is 1915 captain Alex Wilson, killed as an infantry captain in France. Nov. 3, 1923 The largest crowd ever to watch a Yale game—estimated at 80,000—sees coach T.A.D. Jones’ team surge back from a 10-7 halftime deficit to rout Army 31-10. Yale will go on to a perfect (8-0) season. March 13-14, 1925 Walter Camp, 65, dies in his sleep between sessions of a football rules committee meeting in New York. Nov. 19, 1927 T.A.D. Jones, doing well in his offseason businesses, ends his coaching career with a 14-0 victory at Harvard. Yale winds up 7-1, losing only to national championship claimant Georgia. Oct. 26, 1929 With Yale down 13-0 in the second quarter against Army, coach Mal Stevens sends in a 5-foot-7 sophomore tailback, Albie Booth. Booth rushes for 144 yards, runs back a punt 70 yards, scores three touchdowns and kicks the extra points for a 21-13 Yale victory. Oct. 31, 1931 The Bowl is a madhouse. Albie Booth scores three touchdowns—on a 94-yard kickoff return, a 22- yard pass and a 53-yard run. Dartmouth’s Wild Bill McCall matches him with scoring plays of 76, 92 and 60 yards. A 23-point Yale lead goes down the tubes and the teams tie, 33-33. Nov. 17, 1934 In one of its greatest upsets, Yale, and its “Iron Men,” makes a first-quarter touchdown stand up for a 7-0 victory over Princeton, the Tigers’ only loss in a span of 30 games. Sophomore Larry Kelley, destined to win the Heisman Trophy in 1936, makes one of his first big plays, scoring on a 49-yard pass from Jerry Roscoe. Oct. 17, 1936 Larry Kelley sets off a furor in the Navy game at Baltimore when he kicks a ball fumbled by Navy’s Sneed Schmidt. Yale recovers on the Middies’ 2-yard line and Clint Frank goes over for a 12-7 victory. Yale coach Ducky Pond calls the kick accidental and Schmidt agrees. Even so, there’s clamor for a rule change—but only a footnote results. Nov. 13, 1937 On a soggy field, Clint Frank rushes 19 times for 190 yards and four touchdowns in a 26-0 romp against Princeton. Numbers like that pay off at season’s end as Frank becomes Yale’s second Heisman Trophy winner. Oct. 4, 1941 Spike Nelson, Yale’s first head coach who is not an alumnus, sees his team rally for an opening 21- 19 upset of Virginia. It’s the only highlight as Yale loses its next seven games and Nelson is replaced by Howie Odell. 1944 With most of the campus taken over by World War II armed service trainees, Howie Odell patches together an undefeated (7-0-1) team, Yale’s first in 20 years. Missing from the schedule are Princeton and Harvard, which have suspended varsity football for the duration. Sept. 28, 1946 Levi Jackson, Yale’s first African-American football player, makes his debut, scoring twice as the Bulldogs beat the Merchant Marine Academy 33-0.
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