1907 Yale Bulldogs football team

1907 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Yale		–		9	–	0	–	1
Dartmouth		–		8	–	0	–	1
Penn		–		11	–	1	–	0
Carlisle		–		10	–	1	–	0
Temple		–		4	–	0	–	2
Fordham		–		6	–	1	–	1
Cornell		–		8	–	2	–	0
Western U. of Penn.		–		8	–	2	–	0
Princeton		–		7	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		7	–	2	–	0
Lafayette		–		7	–	2	–	1
Lehigh		–		7	–	2	–	1
Swarthmore		–		6	–	2	–	0
Army		–		6	–	2	–	1
NYU		–		5	–	2	–	0
Vermont		–		4	–	1	–	2
Harvard		–		7	–	3	–	0
Brown		–		7	–	3	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse		–		5	–	3	–	1
Drexel		–		3	–	2	–	2
Colgate		–		4	–	4	–	1
Geneva		–		4	–	5	–	2
Amherst		–		3	–	4	–	1
Tufts		–		3	–	4	–	1
Frankin & Marshall		–		4	–	6	–	0
Rutgers		–		3	–	5	–	1
Springfield Training School		–		2	–	4	–	2
Bucknell		–		4	–	7	–	0
New Hampshire		–		1	–	5	–	2
Villanova		–		1	–	5	–	1
Holy Cross		–		1	–	7	–	2
Wesleyan		–		1	–	7	–	1
Carnegie Tech		–		1	–	8	–	0

The 1907 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record, shut out nine of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 208 to 10.^[1] William F. Knox was the head coach, and Lucius Horatio Bigelow was the team captain.

Yale was ranked first in the nation by Caspar Whitney in January 1908.^[2] The team was additionally later retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, the National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.^[3]

Four Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1907 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Tad Jones; fullback Ted Coy; end Clarence Alcott; and tackle Lucius Horatio Biglow.^[4]

^ "1907 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ Whitney, Caspar (January 1908). Whitney, Caspar (ed.). "The View-Point: Team Ranking 1907". The Outing Magazine. Vol. LI, no. 4. Outing Publishing Company. pp. 495–498, 514–516. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.