1943 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1943 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
  • Howard Odell (2nd season)
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1942
1944 →
1943 Eastern college football independents records
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College     4 0 1
Franklin & Marshall     7 1 0
Dartmouth     6 1 0
Rochester     6 1 0
No. 11 Army     7 2 1
Holy Cross     6 2 0
Tufts     6 2 0
No. 20 Penn     6 2 1
Brown     5 3 0
Villanova     5 3 0
Colgate     5 3 1
Penn State     5 3 1
Bucknell     6 4 0
Cornell     6 4 0
Harvard     2 2 1
Yale     4 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 5 0
Temple     2 6 0
CCNY     1 3 1
Princeton     1 6 0
Carnegie Tech     0 4 1
Columbia     0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1943 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1943 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 4–5 record.[1][2]

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Yale ranked 86th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 70.3.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 11MuhlenbergW 13–6
September 18Rochester
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 12–14
September 25Coast Guard
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–12
October 2at PennL 7–4130,000
October 9at ColumbiaW 20–7
October 23No. 2 Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–39
October 30Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–20
November 6Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 20–21
November 13Princeton
W 27–613,000[4]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "1943 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  3. ^ Litkenhous, E. E. (December 17, 1943). "Litkenhouse Selects U. S. Grid Leaders". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 18. Retrieved April 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ Hy Turkin (November 14, 1943). "Yale Pens Tiger, 27-6". New York Daily News. p. 94 – via Newspapers.com.
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