1929 Yale Bulldogs football team

1929 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–2–1
Head coach	Mal Stevens (2nd season)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Captain	Waldo W. Greene [1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ←  1928 1930  →

1929 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 3 Pittsburgh			–					9	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					8	–	1	–	0
Fordham			–					7	–	0	–	2
Bucknell			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 11 Penn			–					7	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					7	–	2	–	1
Villanova			–					7	–	2	–	1
Cornell			–					6	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	1	–	2
Harvard			–					5	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					5	–	2	–	1
NYU			–					7	–	3	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					5	–	2	–	2
Drexel			–					6	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					6	–	3	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					5	–	3	–	1
Army			–					6	–	4	–	1
Providence			–					3	–	3	–	2
Brown			–					5	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					4	–	5	–	0
CCNY			–					2	–	4	–	2
Princeton			–					2	–	4	–	1
Boston University			–					3	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					2	–	7	–	0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1929 college football season. In their second year under head coach Mal Stevens, the Bulldogs compiled a 5–2–1 record. ^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 5	Vermont	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 89–0		[3]
October 12	at Georgia	Sanford Field Athens, GA	L 0–15	30,000–35,000	[4]
October 19	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–6
October 26	Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 21–13
November 2	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 16–12	78,000	[5]
November 9	Maryland	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 13–13	45,000	[6]
November 16	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 13–0		[7]
November 23	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 6–10

References

1. "Year By Year Scores: 1929". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 65. Retrieved November 26, 2024– via Internet Archive.
2. "1929 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
3. "Yale machine buries Vermont under avalanche of 13 touchdowns, 89 to 0". The Hartford Courant. October 6, 1929. Retrieved June 13, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
4. "Georgia pulls real surprise in beating Yale by 15 to 0 score". Allentown Morning Call. October 13, 1929. Retrieved December 6, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
5. Kelley, Robert F. (November 3, 1929). "Ellis's 80-Yard Run Wins for Yale, 16-12, in Dartmouth Game". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
6. "Maryland ties Yale, 13–13, on brilliant aerial attack". The Brooklyn Daily Times. November 10, 1929. Retrieved December 6, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
7. Albert W. Keane (November 17, 1929). "Yale Beats Princeton 13-0 Despite Absence Of Booth From Game". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.