1942 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1942 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
  • Howard Odell (1st season)
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1941
1943 →
1942 Eastern college football independents records
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Williams     7 1 0
No. 19 Penn State     6 1 1
No. 8 Boston College     8 2 0
Buffalo     6 2 0
Bucknell     6 2 1
Colgate     6 2 1
Army     6 3 0
Syracuse     6 3 0
Duquesne     6 3 1
Yale     5 3 0
Fordham     5 3 1
Penn     5 3 1
No. T–19 Holy Cross     5 4 1
Dartmouth     5 4 0
Brown     4 4 0
Villanova     4 4 0
Vermont     4 3 0
Carnegie Tech     3 3 0
Boston University     4 5 0
Cornell     3 5 1
Princeton     3 5 1
Temple     2 5 3
Columbia     3 6 0
Pittsburgh     3 6 0
Tufts     2 5 1
Franklin & Marshall     1 4 2
Massachusetts State     2 5 0
Harvard     2 6 1
Drexel     2 6 0
Manhattan     2 6 0
CCNY     1 7 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1942 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1942 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–3 record.[1][2]

Yale was ranked at No. 54 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3LehighW 33–6
October 12Penn
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–35
October 17at Navy
L 6–13
October 24Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 17–7
October 31Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–0
November 7Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–13
November 14vs. PrincetonW 13–632,000[4]
November 21Harvard
W 7–3

References

  1. ^ "1942 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  2. ^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  3. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 16, 1942). "Litkenhous Rates Georgia No. 1, Ohio State No. 2". Twin City Sentinel. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Hoopes Races 49 Yards For Tying Touchdown". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 15, 1942. p. 41. Retrieved April 3, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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