1941 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1941 Yale Bulldogs football

Conference| Ivy League
Record| 1–7 (0–6 Ivy)
Head coach|

* Spike Nelson (1st season)

Home stadium| Yale Bowl

Seasons

<- 1940

1942 ->

1941 Ivy League football standings

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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

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Date| Opponent| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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October 4| Virginia*|

* Yale Bowl
* New Haven, CT

| W 21–19| 25,000| [4]
October 11| Penn|

* Yale Bowl
* New Haven, CT

| L 13–28| 30,000| [5]
October 18| Army*|

* Yale Bowl
* New Haven, CT

| L 7–20| 56,000| [6]
October 25| Dartmouth|

* Yale Bowl
* New Haven, CT

| L 0–7| | [7]
November 1| Brown|

* Yale Bowl
* New Haven, CT

| L 0–7| 9,000| [8]
November 8| at Cornell|

* Schoellkopf Field
* Ithaca, NY

| L 7–21| 18,000| [9]
November 15| Princeton|

* Yale Bowl
* New Haven, CT (rivalry)

| L 6–20| 35,000| [10]
November 22| at Harvard|

* Harvard Stadium
* Boston, MA (rivalry)

| L 0–14| 53,000| [11]

* *Non-conference game

## References

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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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Yale Bulldogs football

Venues|

* Hamilton Park (1872–1883)
* Yale Field (1884–1914, 1916)
* Yale Bowl (1914–present)

Bowls & rivalries|

* Harvard
* Princeton

Culture & lore|

* 1910 Vanderbilt game
* 1927 Georgia game
* 1968 Harvard game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29)
* 2004 Harvard–Yale prank
* Handsome Dan
* "Boola Boola"
* Pigskin Parade
* Huddle

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