1916_Yale_Bulldogs_football_team

1916 Yale Bulldogs football team

1916 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

The 1916 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1916 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Tad Jones. The team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 182 to 44 and suffered its only loss to Brown.[1] Yale guard Clinton Black was a consensus pick for the 1916 College Football All-America Team, and four other Yale players (ends Charles Comerford and George Moseley, halfback Harry LeGore, and a guard with the surname Fox) also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector in 1916. Black was the team's captain.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    "1916 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Cupid Black Chosen Yale Football Captain for 1916". The Day (Afternoon ed.): 12. December 1, 1915.
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    "Yale Opens Season by Beating Carnegie Tech". The Hartford Courant. October 1, 1916. p. 33 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Yale Crushes Virginia Beneath 61 to 3 Defeat". The Hartford Courant. October 8, 1916. p. 31 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Harry Legore's Sensational Playing Features Yale Victory Over Lehigh". The Hartford Courant. October 15, 1916. p. Z3 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Yale Substitutes Win From Virginia, 20 to 0". The Harford Courant. October 21, 1916. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Yale's Rush Line Shows Much Power: Washington and Jefferson Beaten by 36 to 14". The Boston Globe. October 29, 1916. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Yale Defeats Colgate 7 to 3". Boston Post. November 5, 1916. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Pollard, Brown's Wonderful Halfback, Shines Brightly in Brown's Second Conquest of Bulldog". The Hartford Courant. November 12, 1916. p. Z3 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Battered Yale Sweeps Tigers To Dire Defeat". The New York Times. November 19, 1916. p. VIII-1 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Harvard Falls Before Fierce Rush of Yale". The New York Times. November 26, 1916. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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