2007 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 2007 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bulldogs were led by 11th-year head coach Jack Siedlecki, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished in second place in the Ivy League with a 6–1 record, 9–1 overall. Yale averaged 22,792 fans per game.[1]

2007 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIvy League
Ranking
CoachesNo. 21
Sports NetworkNo. 22
Record9–1 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 2006
2008 →
2007 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 21 Harvard $   7 0     8 2  
No. 22 Yale   6 1     9 1  
Brown   4 3     5 5  
Penn   3 4     4 6  
Princeton   3 4     4 6  
Dartmouth   3 4     3 7  
Cornell   2 5     5 5  
Columbia   0 7     1 9  
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from The Sports Network poll

Schedule edit

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 15at Georgetown*No. 21W 28–142,674[2]
September 22CornellNo. 21W 51–1215,427[3]
September 29at Holy Cross*No. 22W 38–1711,826[4]
October 6DartmouthNo. 18
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 50–1024,237[5]
October 13Lehigh*No. 16
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 23-714,052[6]
October 20at PennNo. 16W 26–20 3OT15,668[7]
October 27at ColumbiaNo. 13W 28–72,555[8]
November 3BrownNo. 15
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 17–73,000[9]
November 10at PrincetonNo. 12W 27–613,408[10]
November 17HarvardNo. 11
L 6–3757,248[11]

References edit

  1. ^ "Football By Year" (PDF). Yale Bulldogs. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 17, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  2. ^ Hine, Tommy (September 16, 2007). "Yale Makes Stops, and McLeod Goes". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. pp. E7, E8 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Hine, Tommy (September 23, 2007). "Yale Shows Dominant Traits". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. E9 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Toland, Jennifer (September 30, 2007). "McLeod and Yale Are Off and Running". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. C19 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Hine, Tommy (October 7, 2007). "Big Green with Envy". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. pp. E8, E10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Groller, Keith (October 14, 2007). "McLeod Carries Yale Over Lehigh". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. CC1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Logan, Joe (October 21, 2007). "Unbeaten Yale Needs 3 OTs to Get by Penn". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. E13 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Hine, Tommy (October 28, 2007). "Yale a Second-Half Team". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. pp. E11, E14 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Hine, Tommy (November 4, 2007). "Double Runners: McLeod, Farrell Lift Yale". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. pp. E9, E10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Hine, Tommy (November 11, 2007). "Perfect Setting for Yale-Harvard; Denny-Brown TDs Sink Princeton". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. E11 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Hine, Tommy (November 18, 2007). "Bowl Licking for Yale: Harvard Dominates to Win Ivy League". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. E1 – via Newspapers.com.