1943 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1943 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1943 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 4–5 record.[1][2]

1943 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1942
1944 →
1943 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Boston College  401
Franklin & Marshall  710
Dartmouth  610
Rochester  610
No. 11 Army  721
Holy Cross  620
Tufts  620
No. 20 Penn  621
Brown  530
Villanova  530
Colgate  531
Penn State  531
Bucknell  640
Cornell  640
Harvard  221
Yale  450
Pittsburgh  350
Temple  260
CCNY  131
Princeton  160
Carnegie Tech  041
Columbia  080
Rankings from AP Poll

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Yale ranked 86th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 70.3.[3]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 11MuhlenbergW 13–6
September 18Rochester
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 12–14
September 25Coast Guard
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–12
October 2at PennL 7–4130,000
October 9at ColumbiaW 20–7
October 23No. 2 Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–39
October 30Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–20
November 6Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 20–21
November 13Princeton
W 27–613,000[4]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

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  1. ^ "1943 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  3. ^ Litkenhous, E. E. (December 17, 1943). "Litkenhouse Selects U. S. Grid Leaders". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 18. Retrieved April 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
  4. ^ Hy Turkin (November 14, 1943). "Yale Pens Tiger, 27-6". New York Daily News. p. 94 – via Newspapers.com.