1920 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1920 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1920 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 5–3 record under third-year head coach Tad Jones.[1] Yale guard Tim Callahan was a consensus selection for the 1920 College Football All-America Team,[2] receiving first team honors from Walter Camp,[3] the United Press,[4] and the International News Service.[5] Yale's other guard, John Acosta, also received first-team All-America honors from Walter Eckersall.[6]

1920 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1920 record5–3
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1920 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Boston College    8 0 0
Harvard    8 0 1
Princeton    6 0 1
Penn State    7 0 2
Pittsburgh    6 0 2
Army    7 2 0
Dartmouth    7 2 0
Cornell    6 2 0
Syracuse    6 2 1
Geneva    5 2 1
New Hampshire    5 2 1
Brown    6 3 0
Bucknell    6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson    6 3 1
Penn    6 4 0
Carnegie Tech    5 3 0
Lafayette    5 3 0
Holy Cross    5 3 0
Williams    5 3 0
Yale    5 3 0
Fordham    4 3 0
Franklin & Marshall    3 2 2
Boston University    4 3 1
Columbia    4 4 0
Duquesne    3 3 1
Vermont    3 5 0
NYU    2 5 1
Rhode Island State    0 4 4
Tufts    2 6 0
Rutgers    2 7 0
Buffalo    1 4 0
Colgate    1 5 2
Villanova    1 5 1
Drexel    0 6 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2Carnegie TechW 44–0
October 9North Carolina
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–0
October 16Boston College
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 13–2130,000
October 23West Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 24–0 [7]
October 30Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–7
November 6Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–1040,000[8]
November 13at Princeton L 0–2050,000[9]
November 20Harvard
L 0–9close to 80,000[10]

References

  1. "1920 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived July 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Camp Names Gridiron Stars". Post-Standard. Syracuse, NY. December 15, 1920.
  4. Henry L. Farrell (December 10, 1920). "Brilliant Backs Are Features of 1920 Eleven: United Press Scribe Picks An All-American Eleven Himself". Middletown Daily Herald.
  5. Jacob Velock (December 7, 1920). "Hard Task To Pick All-American Team From This Season's Galaxy of Stars". Trenton Evening Times.
  6. "Weston on Second All-American Team". Janesville Daily Gazette. December 13, 1920.
  7. "Mountaineers Beaten By Yale By Surprisingly Large Margin". The Pittsburg Press. October 24, 1920. p. Sporting 3 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Husky Brown Team Make Yale Stage Thrilling Rally". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. November 7, 1920. p. 60. Retrieved March 18, 2022 via Newspapers.com .
  9. Grantland Rice (November 14, 1920). "Princeton Blanks Yale 20 to 0; Worst Beating Ever Inflicted on Bulldog by Tiger". New York Tribune. p. 21 via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Crimson Defeats Yale By Score of 9-0: Crimson Machine Held By Savage Defense of Yale". The Hartford Courant. November 21, 1920. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
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