1939 Yale Bulldogs football team

1939 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4–1
Head coach
CaptainJ. William Stack Jr.[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1939 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   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
  –   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

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.[2]

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. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1939". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 68. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1939 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. 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.