1945 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1945 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 1 Army   –  9 –0 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –  4 –0 –1
No. 20 Columbia   –  8 –1 –0
Temple   –  7 –1 –0
No. 16 Holy Cross   –  8 –2 –0
Tufts   –  4 –1 –0
No. 8 Penn   –  6 –2 –0
Yale   –  6 –3 –0
Massachusetts State   –  2 –1 –1
Harvard   –  5 –3 –0
Penn State   –  5 –3 –0
Cornell   –  5 –4 –0
Villanova   –  4 –4 –0
Boston College   –  3 –4 –0
Brown   –  3 –4 –1
Colgate   –  3 –4 –1
Princeton   –  2 –3 –2
NYU   –  3 –4 –0
Pittsburgh   –  3 –7 –0
Bucknell   –  2 –5 –0
Drexel   –  2 –5 –0
Dartmouth   –  1 –6 –1
Syracuse   –  1 –6 –0
Boston University   –  0 –5 –0
CCNY   –  0 –8 –0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1945 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1945 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fourth-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 6–3 record.[1][2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Tufts
W 27–720,000[3]
October 6Holy Cross
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–2125,000[4]
October 13at Columbia
L 13–2730,000[5]
October 27Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–730,000[6]
November 3Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 6–045,000[7]
November 10Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–2015,000[8]
November 17Coast Guard
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 41–610,000[9]
November 24at Princeton
W 20–1440,000[10]
December 1Harvard
W 28–035,000[11]

References

  1. ↑ "1945 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ Keyes, Frank (September 30, 1945). "Vandy Kirk Scores All Four Touchdowns in Yale's 27-7 Win over Tufts; Long Pass Puts Jumbos into Short-Lived Lead". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ Keyes, Frank (October 7, 1945). "Holy Cross Scores First Gridiron Victory over Yale by Score of 21 to 0; Eight Fumbles Shackle Bulldog Running Attack". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Columbia Trims Yale, 27 to 13". The Pittsburgh Press. October 14, 1945. p. 38 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ McGowen, Roscoe (October 28, 1945). "Yale Drives Halt Cornell, 18 to 7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. ↑ Nason, Jerry (November 4, 1945). "Yale Student of 3 Days Defeats Dartmouth, 6-0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Brown Overcomes Favored Yale, 20-7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 11, 1945. p. S1.
  9. ↑ Cunavelis, Jimmy (November 18, 1945). "Yale Trounces Coast Guard, 41 to 6, for 500th Intercollegiate Triumph; Penn, Scannell Lead Bulldogs to Victory". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Smith, Jack (November 25, 1945). "Yale Overcomes Early Lead, Nips Tiger, 20-14". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. C24 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ Richardson, William D. (December 2, 1945). "Elis Triumph, 28-0; Fitzgerald's 3 Scores Help Crush Harvard". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
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