1939 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1939 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

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]

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

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 7Columbia
W 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 Michigan
L 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 Harvard
W 20–752,000[6]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  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.
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