1997 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1997 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIvy League
Record2–8[a] (1–6 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1996
1998 →
1997 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
Harvard $   7 – 0     9 – 1  
Dartmouth   6 – 1     8 – 2  
Brown   4 – 3     7 – 3  
Cornell   4 – 3     6 – 4  
Princeton   3 – 4     6 – 4  
Columbia   3 – 4     4 – 6  
Yale   1 – 6     2 – 8  
Penn *   0 – 7     1 – 9  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • * Standings reflect Penn's forfeit of five conference wins due to use of an ineligible player

The 1997 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Jack Siedlecki, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished in seventh place in the Ivy League.

Yale's record book lists a 1–9 record for 1997, 0–7 in Ivy League play.[1] The Ivy League record book, however, credits Yale with a conference win after Penn forfeited its victories. Yale is thus recorded by the league as its seventh-place finisher in 1997, ahead of Penn.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 20Brown
L 14–5215,315[3]
September 27Connecticut*
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–2816,367[4]
October 3vs.
Valparaiso*
W 34–147,668[5]
October 11Bucknell*
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 24–2511,239[6]
October 18Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–2117,973[7]
October 25at Columbia
L 10–214,665[8]
November 1Penn
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–26[a]3,600[9][10]
November 8at Cornell
L 10–373,995[11]
November 15vs. Princeton
L 0–97,731[12]
November 22Harvard
L 7–1726,064[13]
  • *Non-conference game

Note

^ a: In January 1998, Penn agreed to forfeit its Ivy League wins from 1997 after star defensive tackle Mitch Marrow was declared ineligible as a part-time student.[10] Both teams' record books claim their 1997 meeting, a 26–7 Penn victory on the field, as a loss. Yale thus computes its season record as 1–9, and its Ivy League record as 0–6. The Ivy League's own record book, however, regards the game as a Yale victory (by forfeit), and computes win–loss records and season standings accordingly.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Football By Year" (PDF). Yale Bulldogs. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 17, 2018. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 37. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  3. Newspapers.com. Attendance figure in "Ivy Summaries". Boston Sunday Globe
    . Boston, Mass. September 21, 1997. p. C20.
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  8. Newspapers.com. Attendance figure in "Ivy League Summaries". Boston Sunday Globe
    . Boston, Mass. October 26, 1997. p. F14.
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