1934 Yale Bulldogs football team

1934 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
CaptainFrancis C. Curtin[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1934 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tufts   –   8 – 0 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   7 – 0 – 0
La Salle   –   7 – 0 – 1
Washington College   –   5 – 0 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   8 – 1 – 0
No. 4 Pittsburgh   –   8 – 1 – 0
No. 8 Colgate   –   7 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   7 – 1 – 0
No. 5 Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 0
Duquesne   –   8 – 2 – 0
Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
No. 15 Temple   –   7 – 1 – 2
No. 10 Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   7 – 2 – 2
No. 14 Army   –   7 – 3 – 0
Northeastern   –   6 – 1 – 1
Rochester   –   5 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 3 – 0
Saint Anselm   –   6 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   5 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 0
  –   5 – 3 – 0
Massachusetts State   –   5 – 3 – 1
CCNY   –   4 – 3 – 0
Providence   –   4 – 3 – 0
Drexel   –   4 – 3 – 1
Boston College   –   5 – 4 – 0
Bates   –   3 – 3 – 1
Middlebury   –   3 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   4 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   4 – 4 – 0
Williams   –   4 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   4 – 5 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   4 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   3 – 4 – 2
NYU   –   3 – 4 – 1
Boston University   –   3 – 4 – 0
Colby   –   3 – 4 – 0
Springfield   –   2 – 3 – 3
Manhattan   –   3 – 5 – 1
Harvard   –   3 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   2 – 4 – 2
Wesleyan   –   3 – 5 – 0
Brown   –   3 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   2 – 5 – 2
Saint Joseph's   –   2 – 5 – 1
Cornell   –   2 – 5 – 0
Lafayette   –   2 – 6 – 0
Norwich   –   2 – 6 – 0
Bowdoin   –   0 – 6 – 1
Lowell Textile   –   0 – 7 – 1
Rankings from Associated Press

The 1934 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1934 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–3 record.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6ColumbiaL 6–1225,000[3]
October 13Penn
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–6
October 20Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 37–0
October 27Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 12–20
November 3Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–240,000[4]
November 10Georgia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–14[5]
November 17at PrincetonW 7–052,000[6]
November 24Harvard
W 14–0

References

  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1934". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 66. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1934 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
  3. ^ "Lions Devour Yale Pup, 12-6 As Elis Stage Dogged Battle". Daily News. October 7, 1934. p. 83 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Danzig, Allison (November 4, 1934). "Yale Stops Dartmouth, 7-2, as Jinx in the Bowl Holds". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  5. ^ "Georgia ends series with 14–7 victory". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 11, 1934. Retrieved September 26, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Yale Beats Princeton, 7-0: More Than 52,000 Astounded by Tigers' Inability to Score". The Sunday Times (New Brunswick, NJ). November 18, 1934. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.