1953 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1953 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1953 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Jordan Olivar, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–2–2 record.[1][2]

1953 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1953 record5–2–2
Head coachJordan Olivar (2nd season)
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1953 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 14 Army      7 1 1
Harvard      6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 2 0
Yale      5 2 2
Penn State      6 3 0
Carnegie Tech      5 3 0
Boston College      5 3 1
Boston University      5 3 1
Syracuse      5 3 1
Princeton      5 4 0
Tufts      4 3 0
Cornell      4 3 2
Holy Cross      5 5 0
Temple      4 4 1
Colgate      3 4 2
Columbia      4 5 0
Fordham      4 5 0
Villanova      4 6 0
Drexel      2 3 1
Brown      3 5 1
Penn      3 5 1
Pittsburgh      3 5 1
Dartmouth      2 7 0
Buffalo      1 5 1
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26ConnecticutW 32–0
October 3Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 13–024,000[3]
October 8Columbia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 13–728,000[4]
October 17at CornellT 0–025,000[5]
October 24Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 7–7
October 31Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–3238,000[6]
November 7Temple
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 32–6[7]
November 14at PrincetonW 26–2445,000[8]
November 21Harvard
L 0–1365,000[9]
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References

  1. "1953 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  2. "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  3. Nichols, Joseph C. (October 4, 1953). "Yale 13-to-0 Victor over Brown Team". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  4. Danzig, Allison (October 11, 1953). "Yale Beats Columbia, 13-7; Elis Find Punch". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  5. Werden, Lincoln A. (October 18, 1953). "Elis and Cornell in Scoreless Game". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  6. Sheehan, Joseph M. (November 1, 1953). "Dartmouth Upsets Yale; Elis Crushed, 32-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. "Yale Gridders Top Temple By 32 to 6". The Hartford Courant. November 8, 1953. p. III-1 via Newspapers.com.
  8. Danzig, Allison (November 15, 1953). "Yale Defeats Princeton, 26-24; Elis Click on Pass". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  9. Danzig, Allison (November 22, 1953). "Harvard Trips Yale, 13-0; Big 3 Deadlocked". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
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