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Factoid 18 – Yale is Second in NCAAF National Championships with 27

Date: 12/12/13
The Yale University Bulldogs hold the record of the second most NCAA football championships - 27 in all.

Yale started playing football in 1872; 26 of the championships were before 1910. The last one came in 1927. In 1936 the Associated Press Poll was created after which Yale was never to be awarded a championship again. The AP Poll was the straw that broke the camel’s back as the size and the strength of public universities, as well as some private ones, lead to the demise of Yale and the Ivy League in the sport of college football. In 1978, Yale along with the other Ivy League schools moved to Division II A for smaller schools.

However, Yale contributed tremendously to the sport of college football in its first 50 years, having produced two of the three first Heisman trophy winners (Larry Kelley in 1936 and Clint Frank in 1937), 100 consensus All-Americans, and 28 College Football Hall of Fame inductees. Amongst its football alumni are Walter Camp (the “Father of American Football”), the first professional football player Pudge Heffelfinger, and coaching giants Amos Alonzo Stagg and Howard Jones (who is tied for third in the number of college national championships won).


Factoid 17 - Howard Jones: Tied for Third in the Number of National Championships Won
Factoid 19 - Notre Dame is third in NCAAF National Championships with 22

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