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1940 Yale Bulldogs football team

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American college football season
1940 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–7
Head coach
CaptainHarold B. Whiteman[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Boston College     11 0 0
Duquesne     7 1 0
No. 14 Penn     6 1 1
Penn State     6 1 1
No. 12 Fordham     7 2 0
No. 15 Cornell     6 2 0
La Salle     6 2 0
Princeton     5 2 1
Columbia     5 2 2
Brown     6 3 1
Bucknell     4 2 2
Boston University     5 3 0
Colgate     5 3 0
Hofstra     4 3 0
Harvard     3 2 3
Dartmouth     5 4 0
Temple     4 4 1
Tufts     4 4 0
Vermont     4 4 0
Villanova     4 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 4 1
Syracuse     3 4 1
Buffalo     3 5 0
Carnegie Tech     3 5 0
Manhattan     3 6 0
Providence     3 6 0
NYU     2 7 0
Yale     1 7 0
Army     1 7 1
CCNY     1 5 1
Massachusetts State     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1940 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by seventh-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 1–7 record.[2] [3]

Yale was ranked at No. 110 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[4]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5Virginia L 14–1925,000[5]
October 12at Penn L 7–5050,000[6]
October 19Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 13–7
October 26Navy
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–21
November 2Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 2–6
November 9No. 1 Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–2130,000[7]
November 16at Princeton L 7–10
November 23Harvard
L 0–2847,000[8]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

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  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1940". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 68. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1940 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  3. ^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  4. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Virginia Cavaliers win from favored Yale team". The State. October 6, 1940. Retrieved July 2, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Cy Peterman (October 13, 1940). "Penn Hands Yale Worst Defeat, 50-7". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. S1, S6 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Jack Mahon (November 10, 1940). "Cornell Batters Yale, 21-0". New York Daily News. p. 97 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Jerry Jerome (November 24, 1940). "Harvard Crushes Yale, 28 to 0". New York Daily news. p. 89 – via Newspapers.com.
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