1940 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–7
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1939
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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.[1][2]

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.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5Virginia
L 14–19
October 12at Penn
L 7–5050,000[4]
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[5]
November 16at Princeton
L 7–10
November 23Harvard
L 0–2847,000[6]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

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