1950 Yale Bulldogs football team

1950 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainBradford H. Quackenbush[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1950 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Franklin & Marshall   –   9 – 0 – 0
No. 6 Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 0
St. Lawrence   –   8 – 0 – 0
Thiel   –   7 – 0 – 0
No. 2 Army   –   8 – 1 – 0
Fordham   –   8 – 1 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   7 – 1 – 0
Drexel   –   6 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 2 – 0
Gannon   –   6 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 3 – 0
  –   6 – 3 – 0
Buffalo   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   5 – 5 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   4 – 4 – 1
Columbia   –   4 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 5 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 5 – 1
Dartmouth   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston University   –   3 – 5 – 0
Duquesne   –   2 – 6 – 1
Hofstra   –   2 – 6 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 5 – 1
CCNY   –   1 – 7 – 0
Harvard   –   1 – 7 – 0
Brown   –   1 – 8 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   1 – 8 – 0
Boston College   –   0 – 9 – 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1950 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1950 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by third-year head coach Herman Hickman, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 6–3 record.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23Connecticut
W 25–024,000[3]
September 30Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–1235,000[4]
October 7Fordham
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–1435,000[5]
October 14Columbia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–1430,000[6]
October 15at No. 17 Cornell
L 0–732,000[7]
October 28Holy Cross
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–1330,000[8]
November 4Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–735,000[9]
November 18No. 7 Princeton
L 12–4759,000[10]
November 25at Harvard
W 14–640,000[11]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1950". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 70. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1950 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Newell, Bill (September 24, 1950). "Spears Sparks Yale to 25-0 Victory over Connecticut Gridmen". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Nichols, Joseph C. (October 1, 1950). "Yale Speed Trims Brown Team, 36-12". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  5. ^ Keyes, Frank (October 8, 1950). "Yale Staves Off Ram Drive to Triumph at Bowl, 21-14". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Nichols, Joseph C. (October 15, 1950). "Yale Tops Columbia; Elis Triumph, 20-14". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. ^ Danzig, Allison (October 22, 1950). "Cornell Defeats Yale, 7-0; Battle at Ithaca". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  8. ^ Lee, Bill (October 29, 1950). "Luck, Skill of Irish at Yale Too Much for Holy Cross". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Werden, Lincoln A. (November 5, 1950). "Tyler Scores Touchdown as Big Green Trims Yale". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  10. ^ Danzig, Allison (November 19, 1950). "Tiger Keeps Title" (PDF). The New York Times. New Haven, Conn.
  11. ^ Nichols, Joseph C. (November 26, 1950). "Yale Downs Harvard; Elis in Front, 14-6". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
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