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1937 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1937 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 12
Record6–1–1
Head coach
CaptainClint Frank[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1936
1938 →
1937 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Pittsburgh     9 0 1
No. 6 Villanova     8 0 1
No. 3 Fordham     7 0 1
No. 7 Dartmouth     7 0 2
No. T–14 Holy Cross     8 0 2
St. Thomas (PA)     6 1 1
No. 12 Yale     6 1 1
Army     7 2 0
Boston University     6 2 0
Cornell     5 2 1
Harvard     5 2 1
Syracuse     5 2 1
CCNY     5 2 0
No. 12 Manhattan     6 3 1
Penn State     5 3 0
Duquesne     6 4 0
Brown     5 4 0
NYU     5 4 0
Temple     3 2 4
Boston College     4 4 1
Bucknell     3 3 2
Buffalo     4 4 0
Princeton     4 4 0
Tufts     3 4 1
Colgate     3 5 0
Columbia     2 5 2
Hofstra     2 4 0
Carnegie Tech     2 5 1
Penn     2 5 1
Providence     2 6 0
Vermont     2 6 0
La Salle     2 7 0
Massachusetts State     1 7 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1937 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1937 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fourth-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 6–1–1 record.[2][3]

Schedule

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DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2MaineW 26–0[4]
October 9Penn
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–7
October 16Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 15–7
October 23No. 19 Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 9–0
October 30No. 9 DartmouthNo. 5
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 9–9
November 6BrownNo. 7
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
November 13PrincetonNo. 6
W 26–0
November 20at HarvardNo. 5L 6–1358,000[5]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

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  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1937". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 67. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1937 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  3. ^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  4. ^ W.J. Lee (October 3, 1937). "Yale Football Team Gets off To Stuttering Start In Defeating Maine Eleven". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ W. J. Lee (November 21, 1937). "Yale Bows To Harvard By 13 To 6". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1, IV-2 – via Newspapers.com.