[1] In the January 1907 edition of The Outing Magazine, Caspar Whitney ranked Yale first among the nation's teams for 1906.

[17][18] Parke H. Davis selected the team as national champions in the 1934 edition of Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide.

[19] Yale's four consensus All Americans were: halfback William F. Knox; fullback Paul Veeder; end Robert Forbes; and tackle Lucius Horatio Biglow.

Following controversies in 1905 over the increase of violence and professionalism in college football, a number of rule changes were implemented in 1906.

Yale's Paul Veeder and Bob Forbes combined for one of the first important pass plays, a play described in one history of the game as follows: "The only other significant pass that season was thrown by Yale, which gained a first down that led to victory over Harvard, when Paul Veeder threw thirty yards to Bob Forbes.