The 1879 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1879 college football season. The team finished with a 3–0–2 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H.
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O. D. Thompson
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Oliver David Thompson was an early football player at Yale, who played alongside Walter Camp. After his time at Yale, Thompson was a player and manager for the Allegheny Athletic Association. He is be
1879 Yale Bulldogs football team
…prospects of the 1879 Yale team were assessed ahead of the season by a football fan from the Harvard class of 1880, Theodore Roosevelt: "Yale has lost Thompson, who has twice turned the scale against us; but otherwise her team will probably be much the same as last year's, and there is plenty of good material…
Oliver David Thompson
Yale College photograph of Thompson wearing a Skull and Bones pin, c. 1879