1939 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1939 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1939 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 3–4–1 record.[1][2]

1939 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1939 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Cornell    8 0 0
No. 10 Duquesne    8 0 1
Swarthmore    6 0 1
Scranton    7 0 2
Princeton    7 1 0
La Salle    6 1 1
Penn State    5 1 2
No. 11 Boston College    9 2 0
No. 17 Fordham    6 2 0
Villanova    6 2 0
Boston University    5 3 0
Brown    5 3 1
Dartmouth    5 3 1
Hofstra    4 3 0
NYU    5 4 0
Pittsburgh    5 4 0
Harvard    4 4 0
Manhattan    4 4 0
Penn    4 4 0
Syracuse    3 3 2
Vermont    3 3 2
Tufts    3 4 1
Yale    3 4 1
Army    3 4 2
Bucknell    3 5 0
Carnegie Tech    3 5 0
Providence    3 5 0
Columbia    2 4 2
Massachusetts State    2 5 2
Colgate    2 5 1
Temple    2 7 0
CCNY    1 7 0
Buffalo    0 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Yale was ranked at No. 73 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 7ColumbiaW 10–7
October 14Penn
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–6
October 21Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–15[4]
October 28at No. 3 MichiganL 7–2754,480
November 4Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–33
November 11Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 14–1432,000[5]
November 18Princeton
L 7–13
November 25at HarvardW 20–752,000[6]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1939 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  2. "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  3. E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 via Newspapers.com.
  4. Robert Sylvester (October 22, 1939). "Yale Tops Army, 20-15". New York Daily News. p. C35 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Yale, Brown Wage 14-14 Deadlock". New York Daily News. November 12, 1939. p. C38 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Yale's 'Worst' Whips Harvard". New York Daily News. November 26, 1939. p. 39C via Newspapers.com.
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