The 1887 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as a member of the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) during the 1887 college football season. The team compiled a perfect 9–0 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 515 to 12. Quarterback Harry Beecher was the team's captain.
There was no contemporaneous system in 1887 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.
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Roster Baker, FB Harry Beecher, QB William T. Bull, FB G. R. Carter, G William Herbert Corbin, C S. M. Cross, T Foster, FB Charles O. Gill Graves, HB-FB Mason, HB Morrison, HB F. C. Pratt, E William Rhodes, T Robinson, E Amos Alonzo Stagg, HB Frederic W. Wallace, E Williams, HB George Washington Woodruff, G William Wurtenburg, FB
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