1943 Yale Bulldogs football team

1943 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
CaptainTownsend Hoopes[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1943 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College   –   4 – 0 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   7 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 1 – 0
Rochester   –   6 – 1 – 0
No. 11 Army   –   7 – 2 – 1
Holy Cross   –   6 – 2 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 2 – 0
No. 20 Penn   –   6 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Harvard   –   2 – 2 – 1
  –   4 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 5 – 0
Temple   –   2 – 6 – 0
CCNY   –   1 – 3 – 1
Princeton   –   1 – 6 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   0 – 4 – 1
Columbia   –   0 – 8 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1943 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1943 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Howie Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 4–5 record.[2]

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Yale ranked 86th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 70.3.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 11MuhlenbergW 13–6
September 18Rochester
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 12–14
September 25Coast Guard
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–12
October 2at PennL 7–4130,000
October 9at ColumbiaW 20–7
October 23No. 2 Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–39
October 30Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–20
November 6Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 20–21
November 13Princeton
W 27–613,000[4]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1943". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 69. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1943 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  3. ^ Litkenhous, E. E. (December 17, 1943). "Litkenhouse Selects U. S. Grid Leaders". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 18. Retrieved April 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ Hy Turkin (November 14, 1943). "Yale Pens Tiger, 27-6". New York Daily News. p. 94 – via Newspapers.com.