1890 Yale Bulldogs football team

1890 Yale Bulldogs football
Touchdown, 1890 Yale vs. Princeton game,
painting by Frederic Remington
ConferenceIndependent
Record13–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Rhodes
Home stadiumYale Field
1890 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     11 0 0
Yale     13 1 0
Princeton     11 1 1
Franklin & Marshall     8 2 0
Navy     5 1 1
Penn     11 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     2 1 0
Cornell     7 4 0
Lehigh     7 4 0
Syracuse     7 4 0
Springfield YMCA     5 3 0
Rutgers     5 5 1
Penn State     2 2 0
Western Univ. Penn     2 2 0
Colgate     1 1 0
Wesleyan     5 6 0
Tufts     2 3 0
NYU     2 4 0
Lafayette     2 5 1
Fordham     1 3 1
Brown     2 5 0
Bucknell     1 4 1
Massachusetts     1 4 0
Columbia     1 6 1
Army     0 1 0
Geneva     0 1 0

The 1890 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1890 college football season. In its third year under head coach Walter Camp, the team compiled a 13–1 record, recorded 12 shutouts, and outscored all opponents by a total of 486 to 18. Its only loss was to rival Harvard by a 12–6 score.

Three Yale players (halfback Thomas McClung, guard Pudge Heffelfinger, and tackle William Rhodes) were consensus picks for the 1890 College Football All-America Team. All three have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame