1945 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1945 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1945 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fourth-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 6–3 record.[1][2]

1945 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1945 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 1 Army   –  9 –0 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –  4 –0 –1
No. 20 Columbia   –  8 –1 –0
Temple   –  7 –1 –0
No. 16 Holy Cross   –  8 –2 –0
Tufts   –  4 –1 –0
No. 8 Penn   –  6 –2 –0
Yale   –  6 –3 –0
Massachusetts State   –  2 –1 –1
Harvard   –  5 –3 –0
Penn State   –  5 –3 –0
Cornell   –  5 –4 –0
Villanova   –  4 –4 –0
Boston College   –  3 –4 –0
Brown   –  3 –4 –1
Colgate   –  3 –4 –1
Princeton   –  2 –3 –2
NYU   –  3 –4 –0
Pittsburgh   –  3 –7 –0
Bucknell   –  2 –5 –0
Drexel   –  2 –5 –0
Dartmouth   –  1 –6 –1
Syracuse   –  1 –6 –0
Boston University   –  0 –5 –0
CCNY   –  0 –8 –0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Tufts
W 27–720,000[3]
October 6Holy Cross
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–2125,000[4]
October 13at Columbia
L 13–2730,000[5]
October 27Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–730,000[6]
November 3Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 6–045,000[7]
November 10Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–2015,000[8]
November 17Coast Guard
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 41–610,000[9]
November 24at Princeton
W 20–1440,000[10]
December 1Harvard
W 28–035,000[11]

References
  1. "1945 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  2. "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  3. Keyes, Frank (September 30, 1945). "Vandy Kirk Scores All Four Touchdowns in Yale's 27-7 Win over Tufts; Long Pass Puts Jumbos into Short-Lived Lead". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
  4. Keyes, Frank (October 7, 1945). "Holy Cross Scores First Gridiron Victory over Yale by Score of 21 to 0; Eight Fumbles Shackle Bulldog Running Attack". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Columbia Trims Yale, 27 to 13". The Pittsburgh Press. October 14, 1945. p. 38 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. McGowen, Roscoe (October 28, 1945). "Yale Drives Halt Cornell, 18 to 7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. Nason, Jerry (November 4, 1945). "Yale Student of 3 Days Defeats Dartmouth, 6-0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Brown Overcomes Favored Yale, 20-7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 11, 1945. p. S1.
  9. Cunavelis, Jimmy (November 18, 1945). "Yale Trounces Coast Guard, 41 to 6, for 500th Intercollegiate Triumph; Penn, Scannell Lead Bulldogs to Victory". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Smith, Jack (November 25, 1945). "Yale Overcomes Early Lead, Nips Tiger, 20-14". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. C24 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. Richardson, William D. (December 2, 1945). "Elis Triumph, 28-0; Fitzgerald's 3 Scores Help Crush Harvard". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
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