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 Cornell
L 7–2118,000[9]
November 15Princeton
L 6–2035,000[10]
November 22at Harvard
L 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.
  3. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Yale Rally Nips Virginia, 21-19 as Sophs Star". New York Daily News. October 5, 1941. p. 91 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ W.J. Lee (October 12, 1941). "Pennsylvania Football Team Scores 21 Points In First Half To Defeat Yale". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Dick McCann (October 19, 1941). "Army Crushes Yale, 20-7, Grounding Air Attack". New York Daily News. p. C42 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Ronald Melcher (October 26, 1941). "Dartmouth Eleven Marches 93 Yards For Touchdown To Conquer Yale Rivals". The New Haven Courant. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Brown Trims Yale, 7-0, on Pass". New York Daily News. November 2, 1941. p. 91 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Cornell Hands Yale 5th Setback, 21-7". New York Daily News. November 9, 1941. p. 97 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Frank Keyes (November 16, 1941). "Captain Bob Peters Sparks Princeton Tigers To 20 To 6 Triumph Over Yale". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Harvard Beats Back Yale, 14-0". New York Daily News. November 23, 1941. p. 96 – via Newspapers.com.
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