1919 Yale Bulldogs football
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –   7 – 1 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 1 – 1
Colgate   –   5 – 1 – 1
New Hampshire   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 2 – 0
Williams   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 2 – 1
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 2 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 3 – 0
Princeton   –   4 – 2 – 1
Geneva   –   4 – 2 – 2
Army   –   6 – 3 – 0
Boston College   –   5 – 3 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   5 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   5 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Bucknell   –   5 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   4 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 4 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 4 – 3
Cornell   –   3 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 6 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   2 – 4 – 2
Tufts   –   2 – 5 – 0
Buffalo   –   0 – 5 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   0 – 8 – 1
Drexel   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1919 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1919 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 5–3 record under first-year head coach Albert Sharpe.[1] No Yale player received first-team honors on the 1919 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4 Springfield (MA)
W 20–0[2][3]
October 11 North Carolina
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–7
October 18 Boston College
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 3–5
October 25 Tufts
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 37–0
November 1 Maryland State
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 31–0[4]
November 82:00 p.m. Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–030,000[5][6]
November 15 Princeton
L 6–13
November 22at Harvard
L 3–1050,000[7]

References

  1. ^ "1919 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Yale Scores First Gridiron Victory". New York Herald. New York, New York. October 5, 1919. p. 23. Retrieved April 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Yale Wins Her Opening Game Of The Season". The Buffalo Times. Buffalo, New York. Associated Press. October 5, 1919. p. 56. Retrieved April 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Yale Team Plays With Southerners". The Hartford Courant. November 2, 1919 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Scrappy Brown Eleven Confident Of Holding Big Blue Team Even At New Haven Today". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 8, 1919. p. 14. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Yale's Offensive Strikes Its Stride Against Brown". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 9, 1919. p. 42. Retrieved March 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Harvard Triumphant Over Yale, 10 to 3: Eddie Casey Dashes for Winning Score". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 18, 19 – via Newspapers.com.
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