1941 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1941 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University as an independent during the 1941 college football season. In their first season under head coach Spike Nelson, the Bulldogs compiled a 1–7 record and were outscored by a total of 136 to 54.[1][2] The team played its home games at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut.

1941 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1941 record1–7
Head coachSpike Nelson (1st season)
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1941 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 8 Duquesne      8 0 0
No. 6 Fordham      8 1 0
No. 15 Penn      7 1 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 1 1
Penn State      7 2 0
Temple      7 2 0
Harvard      5 2 1
Syracuse      5 2 1
Boston College      7 3 0
Hofstra      5 2 0
Drexel Tech      4 2 1
Boston University      5 3 0
Cornell      5 3 0
Tufts      5 3 0
Army      5 3 1
Brown      5 4 0
Dartmouth      5 4 0
Villanova      4 4 0
Manhattan      4 4 1
Holy Cross      4 4 2
Colgate      3 3 2
Buffalo      3 4 1
Massachusetts State      3 4 1
Columbia      3 5 0
Pittsburgh      3 6 0
Princeton      2 6 0
NYU      2 7 0
Carnegie Tech      1 7 0
Yale      1 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4VirginiaW 21–1925,000[3]
October 11Penn
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 13–2830,000[4]
October 18Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–2056,000[5]
October 25Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–7[6]
November 1Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–79,000[7]
November 8at CornellL 7–2118,000[8]
November 15Princeton
L 6–2035,000[9]
November 22at HarvardL 0–1453,000[10]

References

  1. "1941 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
  2. "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  3. "Yale Rally Nips Virginia, 21-19 as Sophs Star". New York Daily News. October 5, 1941. p. 91 via Newspapers.com.
  4. W.J. Lee (October 12, 1941). "Pennsylvania Football Team Scores 21 Points In First Half To Defeat Yale". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 via Newspapers.com.
  5. Dick McCann (October 19, 1941). "Army Crushes Yale, 20-7, Grounding Air Attack". New York Daily News. p. C42 via Newspapers.com.
  6. Ronald Melcher (October 26, 1941). "Dartmouth Eleven Marches 93 Yards For Touchdown To Conquer Yale Rivals". The New Haven Courant. p. IV-1 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Brown Trims Yale, 7-0, on Pass". New York Daily News. November 2, 1941. p. 91 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Cornell Hands Yale 5th Setback, 21-7". New York Daily News. November 9, 1941. p. 97 via Newspapers.com.
  9. Frank Keyes (November 16, 1941). "Captain Bob Peters Sparks Princeton Tigers To 20 To 6 Triumph Over Yale". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Harvard Beats Back Yale, 14-0". New York Daily News. November 23, 1941. p. 96 via Newspapers.com.
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