1941 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1941 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIvy League
Record1–7 (0–6 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 15 Penn $ 5 0 0 7 1 0
Columbia 3 1 0 3 5 0
Harvard 4 2 0 5 2 1
Cornell 3 2 0 5 3 0
Dartmouth 2 2 0 5 4 0
Brown 1 2 0 5 4 0
Princeton 1 4 0 2 6 0
Yale 0 6 0 1 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from
AP Poll

The 1941 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University in the Ivy League during the 1941 college football season. In their first and only 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]

Yale was ranked at No. 78 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[3]

The team played its home games at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut.

Schedule

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

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. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
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