The 1902 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1902 college football season.
[1] Joseph R. Swan was the head coach, and George B. Chadwick was the team captain.
Yale was selected as the 1902 champion in the 1903 edition of the World Almanac.
[2] In the absence of any recognized Intercollegiate Football Association the championship cannot always be unerringly fixed; but in 1902 there is no difficulty in allotting the honor to Yale, inasmuch as she won every one of her games.In 1933 Yale was retroactively named as the national co-champion, along with Michigan, by NCAA-designated "major selector" Parke H.
The team's consensus All-Americans were: quarterback Foster Rockwell; halfback George B. Chadwick; end Tom Shevlin; center Henry Holt; guard Edward Glass; and tackles Ralph Kinney and James Hogan.