1939 Yale Bulldogs football team

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.[1][2]

1939 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1938
1940 →
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
Yale     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

Yale was ranked at No. 73 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[3]

Schedule edit

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 edit

  1. ^ "1939 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  2. ^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. 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.