1933 Yale Bulldogs football team

1933 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–4
Head coach	Reginald D. Root (1st season)
Captain	Robert Lassiter [1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ←  1932 1934  →

1933 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 7 Princeton			–					9	–	0	–	0
Duquesne			–					10	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Army			–					9	–	1	–	0
Boston College			–					8	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					8	–	1	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					8	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					6	–	1	–	1
Bucknell			–					7	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					6	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	2	–	0
Villanova			–					7	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					5	–	2	–	1
Drexel			–					5	–	3	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Temple			–					5	–	3	–	0
Manhattan			–					5	–	3	–	1
Cornell			–					4	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	3	–	2
La Salle			–					3	–	3	–	2
Syracuse			–					4	–	4	–	0
Yale			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					3	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					3	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					4	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	4	–	1
Penn			–					2	–	4	–	1
Northeastern			–					1	–	3	–	1
Boston University			–					2	–	5	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					2	–	7	–	1
CCNY			–					1	–	5	–	1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1933 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1933 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Reginald D. Root, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 4–4 record. ^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 7	Maine	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–7
October 14	Washington and Lee	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–0	18,000	[3]
October 21	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–6
October 28	Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–21
November 4	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–13	25,000	[4]
November 11	Georgia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–7	35,000	[5]
November 25	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 6–19
December 2	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 2–27	40,000	[6] [7]

References

1. "Year By Year Scores: 1933". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 66. Retrieved November 26, 2024– via Internet Archive.
2. "1933 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
3. "Yale defeats W. & L. eleven". The Baltimore Sun. October 15, 1933. Retrieved August 20, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
4. Nichols, Joseph C. (November 5, 1933). "Yale Rally Beats Dartmouth, 14-13, in Thrilling Game". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
5. "Unbeaten Georgia team grinds out 7–0 victory over fighting Yale eleven". The Hartford Courant. November 12, 1933. Retrieved April 10, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
6. Jimmy Powers (December 3, 1933). "Undefeated Princeton Wallops Yale by 27-2! Fights Follow Game". New York Daily News. p. 85 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Princeton Drubs Yale By 27 to 2". The Hartford Courant. December 3, 1933. pp. 1, 37 – via Newspapers.com.