1895 Yale Bulldogs football team

1895 Yale Bulldogs football
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record13–0–2
Head coach
CaptainSam Thorne
Home stadiumYale Field
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn    14 0 0
Yale    13 0 2
Princeton    10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson    6 1 1
Harvard    8 2 1
Lafayette    6 2 0
Syracuse    6 2 2
Army    5 2 0
Bucknell    5 2 0
Colgate    4 2 0
Swarthmore    7 4 1
Tufts    8 5 0
Villanova    4 2 0
Wesleyan    6 3 0
Amherst    6 5 0
Brown    7 6 1
Carlisle    4 4 0
Drexel    3 3 1
Rhode Island    1 1 0
Penn State    2 2 3
Cornell    3 4 1
Rutgers    3 4 0
New Hampshire    2 3 1
Frankin & Marshall    3 5 1
Boston College    2 4 2
Lehigh    3 6 0
CCNY    2 5 1
Buffalo    1 4 2
Temple    1 4 1
MIT    1 4 0
Trinity (CT)    1 4 0
Massachusetts    1 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.    1 6 0
Geneva    0 5 0
NYU    0 5 0

The 1895 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1895 college football season. The team finished with a 13–0–2 record, shut out 10 of 15 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 316 to 38. John A. Hartwell was the head coach, and Sam Thorne was the team captain.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1895 for determining a national champion. However, Yale was retroactively named as the co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. Most selectors designated Penn (perfect 14–0 record) as the national champion for 1895; Yale and Penn did not play during the 1895 season.

Two Yale players were selected as consensus first-team players on the 1895 All-America team. The team's consensus All-Americans were: halfback Sam Thorne and tackle Fred T. Murphy.