1942 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1942 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Williams    7 1 0
No. 19 Penn State    6 1 1
No. 8 Boston College    8 2 0
Buffalo    6 2 0
Bucknell    6 2 1
Colgate    6 2 1
Army    6 3 0
Syracuse    6 3 0
Duquesne    6 3 1
Yale    5 3 0
Fordham    5 3 1
Penn    5 3 1
No. T–19 Holy Cross    5 4 1
Dartmouth    5 4 0
Brown    4 4 0
Villanova    4 4 0
Vermont    4 3 0
Carnegie Tech    3 3 0
Boston University    4 5 0
Cornell    3 5 1
Princeton    3 5 1
Temple    2 5 3
Columbia    3 6 0
Pittsburgh    3 6 0
Tufts    2 5 1
Franklin & Marshall    1 4 2
Massachusetts State    2 5 0
Harvard    2 6 1
Drexel    2 6 0
Manhattan    2 6 0
CCNY    1 7 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1942 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1942 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–3 record.[1][2]

Yale was ranked at No. 54 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3LehighW 33–6
October 12Penn
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–35
October 17at NavyL 6–13
October 24Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 17–7
October 31Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–0
November 7Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–13
November 14vs. PrincetonW 13–632,000[4]
November 21Harvard
W 7–3

References

  1. "1942 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  2. "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  3. Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 16, 1942). "Litkenhous Rates Georgia No. 1, Ohio State No. 2". Twin City Sentinel. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Hoopes Races 49 Yards For Tying Touchdown". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 15, 1942. p. 41. Retrieved April 3, 2020 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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