The 1923 Yale Bulldogs football team represented

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in the

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. The Bulldogs finished with an undefeated 8–0 record under sixth-year head coach Tad Jones. Yale outscored its opponents by a combined score of 230 to 38, including a 40–0 victory over

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, a 31–10 victory over Army and shutout victories over rivals Princeton and Harvard. Two Yale players, tackle Century Milstead and fullback

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, were consensus selections for the

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. The team was selected retroactively as a co-national champion by the

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system.

Schedule

Roster

* Edward C. Bench * John S. Bingham, E * Edwin F. Blair, T * James F. Burns * Benjamin Butterworth, T * Edmund P. Cottle, HB * Joshua M. Deaver, E * John C. Diller, T * Richard J. Eckhart * Caldwell B. Esselstyn, G * Edward M. Greene * J. Hoxie Haas, FB * Theodore S. Hart * Otis L. Hubbard *

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, E * Houston E. Landis, C * John J. Lincoln *

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, C * Richard Luman, E *

, FB * John L. Miller, T * Century Milstead, T * Russell W. Murphy, QB * William H. Neale, HB * Newell G. Neidlinger * Norris, G * Charles M. O'Hearn, HB *

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, HB * William L. Richeson, QB * Riley, QB * Henry C. Scott *

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, HB * Weinecke, QB

References

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