Year: | 1883 |
Team: | Yale Bulldogs |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Independent |
Record: | 9–0 |
Head Coach: | None |
Captain: | Ray Tompkins |
Stadium: | Hamilton Park |
Champion: | National champion |
The 1883 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1883 college football season. The team compiled a 9–0 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 540 to 2.[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[2]