1942 Yale Bulldogs football team

1942 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
CaptainSpencer Moseley[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1942 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Williams   –   7 – 1 – 0
No. 19 Penn State   –   6 – 1 – 1
No. 8 Boston College   –   8 – 2 – 0
Buffalo   –   6 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   6 – 2 – 1
Army   –   6 – 3 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 0
Duquesne   –   6 – 3 – 1
  –   5 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   5 – 3 – 1
No. T–19 Holy Cross   –   5 – 4 – 1
Dartmouth   –   5 – 4 – 0
Brown   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 3 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 3 – 0
Boston University   –   4 – 5 – 0
Cornell   –   3 – 5 – 1
Princeton   –   3 – 5 – 1
Temple   –   2 – 5 – 3
Columbia   –   3 – 6 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 6 – 0
Tufts   –   2 – 5 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   1 – 4 – 2
Massachusetts State   –   2 – 5 – 0
Harvard   –   2 – 6 – 1
Manhattan   –   2 – 6 – 0
CCNY   –   1 – 7 – 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1942 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1942 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Howie Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–3 record.[2]

Yale was ranked at No. 54 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3LehighW 33–6
October 12Penn
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–35
October 17at NavyL 6–13
October 24Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 17–7
October 31Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–0
November 7Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–13
November 14vs. PrincetonW 13–632,000[4]
November 21Harvard
W 7–3

References

  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1942". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 68. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1942 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  3. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 16, 1942). "Litkenhous Rates Georgia No. 1, Ohio State No. 2". Twin City Sentinel. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Hoopes Races 49 Yards For Tying Touchdown". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 15, 1942. p. 41. Retrieved April 3, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.