1947 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1947 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1947 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 6–3 record.[1][2]

1947 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1947 record6–3
Head coachHoward Odell (6th season)
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1947 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 4 Penn State      9 0 1
No. 7 Penn      7 0 1
Muhlenberg      9 1 0
Buffalo      8 1 0
No. 20 Columbia      7 2 0
No. 11 Army      5 2 2
Yale      6 3 0
Villanova      6 3 1
Boston University      5 3 0
Hofstra      5 3 0
Princeton      5 3 0
Tufts      5 3 0
Franklin & Marshall      4 3 1
Boston College      5 4 0
Brown      4 4 1
Dartmouth      4 4 1
Holy Cross      4 4 2
Harvard      4 5 0
Cornell      4 5 0
Syracuse      3 6 0
NYU      2 5 1
Temple      2 6 0
Duquesne      2 8 0
Colgate      1 5 2
Fordham      1 6 1
Pittsburgh      1 8 0
Carnegie Tech      0 6 0
Drexel      0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27Merchant MarineW 34–1318,000[3]
October 4Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–050,000[4]
October 11at No. 11 ColumbiaNo. 14W 17–735,000[5]
October 18WisconsinNo. 12
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–965,000[6]
October 25Springfield
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 49–015,000[7]
November 1Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–1463,000[8]
November 8BrownNo. 20
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 14–2015,000[9]
November 15at PrincetonL 0–1750,000[10]
November 22Harvard
W 31–2170,896[11]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1947 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  2. "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  3. Bill Lee (September 28, 1947). "Nadherny's Play Enables Yale To Win". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 via Newspapers.com.
  4. Frank Keyes (October 5, 1947). "Elis Down Cornell, 14-0 On Sustained Advances". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Eli Overpower Lions With Air Attack, 17-7". The Daily News (New York City). October 12, 1947. p. 103 via Newspapers.com.
  6. Bill Lee (October 19, 1947). "Wisconsin Overcomes Yale In Bitterly Contested Game Before 65,000, By 9-0 Score". Hartford Courant. pp. IV-1, IV-5 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Yale Wallops Springfield By 49-0 Score". The Hartford Courant. October 26, 1947. p. IV-1 via Newspapers.com.
  8. Hy Turkin (November 2, 1947). "Elis Top Dartmouth, 23-14". The Daily News (New York City). p. C41 via Newspapers.com.
  9. Roger Dover (November 9, 1947). "Surprising Brown Eleven Upsets Yale By 20 To 14". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 via Newspapers.com.
  10. Mort Berry (November 16, 1947). "Yale Beaten By Princeton". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 33 via Newspapers.com.
  11. Vern Miller (November 23, 1947). "Yale Power Quells Fiery Crimson, 31-21". The Boston Globe. pp. 27, 30 via Newspapers.com.
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