The 1903 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1903 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 11–1 record under first-year head coach George B. Chadwick. The team outscored its opponents by a combined 312 to 26 score with the only loss being by an 11–6 score to Princeton.

Four Yale players (fullback Ledyard Mitchell, end Charles D. Rafferty, tackle James Hogan and guard James Bloomer) were consensus picks for the 1903 College Football All-America Team. Quarterback Foster Rockwell and halfback Harold Metcalf were also selected as first-team All-Americans by Charles Chadwick, and end Tom Shevlin was a first-team pick by the San Antonio Daily Light.

Schedule

Roster

  • Arthur W. Allen, E
  • Leon H. Andrews, T
  • Harold S. Batchelder, G
  • Lebbeus F. Bissell, T
  • James Bloomer, G
  • Fernando M. Blount
  • Morgan H. Bowman, FB
  • Malcolm Farmer, FB
  • Carl S. Flanders, G
  • Morin S. Hare, E
  • James Hogan, T
  • Lydig Hoyt, FB
  • Willard Hyatt
  • Ralph Kinney, T
  • Frank McCoy, HB
  • Harold G. Metcalf, QB
  • James E. Miller, G
  • Ledyard Mitchell, HB
  • John A. Moorhead, E
  • Sydney B. Morton, G
  • Chester T. Neal, E
  • Jack Owsley, HB
  • James C. Preston, HB
  • Charles D. Rafferty, E
  • Foster Rockwell, QB
  • J. Clinton Roraback, C
  • Tom Shevlin, E
  • Philip C. Smith, C
  • Willard B. Soper, HB
  • John A. Stevenson, FB
  • Stillman, E
  • Spencer Turner, T
  • Twitchwell, QB
  • Burnside Winslow

References


1885 Yale Bulldogs Football Team Photograph

Yale Bulldogs Hockey Team Photo 1929 HockeyGods

2018 College Football Team Previews Yale Bulldogs The College Sports

HarvardYale Football Game, 1903 MATTHEW'S ISLAND

Princeton vs Yale 1903 Football Study Hall