1934 Yale Bulldogs football team

1934 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3
Head coach	Ducky Pond (1st season)
Captain	Francis C. Curtin [1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ←  1933 1935  →

1934 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Tufts			–					8	–	0	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					7	–	0	–	0
La Salle			–					7	–	0	–	1
Washington College			–					5	–	0	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 4 Pittsburgh			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 8 Colgate			–					7	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 5 Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
Duquesne			–					8	–	2	–	0
Holy Cross			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 15 Temple			–					7	–	1	–	2
No. 10 Syracuse			–					6	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					7	–	2	–	2
No. 14 Army			–					7	–	3	–	0
Northeastern			–					6	–	1	–	1
Rochester			–					5	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					6	–	3	–	0
Saint Anselm			–					6	–	3	–	0
Amherst			–					5	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					5	–	3	–	0
Yale			–					5	–	3	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					5	–	3	–	1
CCNY			–					4	–	3	–	0
Providence			–					4	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					4	–	3	–	1
Boston College			–					5	–	4	–	0
Bates			–					3	–	3	–	1
Middlebury			–					3	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					4	–	4	–	0
Williams			–					4	–	4	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	5	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					4	–	5	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	4	–	2
NYU			–					3	–	4	–	1
Boston University			–					3	–	4	–	0
Colby			–					3	–	4	–	0
Springfield			–					2	–	3	–	3
Manhattan			–					3	–	5	–	1
Harvard			–					3	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					2	–	4	–	2
Wesleyan			–					3	–	5	–	0
Brown			–					3	–	6	–	0
Geneva			–					2	–	5	–	2
Saint Joseph's			–					2	–	5	–	1
Cornell			–					2	–	5	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	6	–	0
Norwich			–					2	–	6	–	0
Bowdoin			–					0	–	6	–	1
Lowell Textile			–					0	–	7	–	1
Rankings from Associated Press

The 1934 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1934 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–3 record. ^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 6	Columbia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 6–12	25,000	[3]
October 13	Penn	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–6
October 20	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 37–0
October 27	Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 12–20
November 3	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 7–2	40,000	[4]
November 10	Georgia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 7–14		[5]
November 17	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 7–0	52,000	[6]
November 24	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 14–0

References

1. "Year By Year Scores: 1934". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 66. Retrieved November 26, 2024– via Internet Archive.
2. "1934 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
3. "Lions Devour Yale Pup, 12-6 As Elis Stage Dogged Battle". Daily News. October 7, 1934. p. 83 – via Newspapers.com.
4. Danzig, Allison (November 4, 1934). "Yale Stops Dartmouth, 7-2, as Jinx in the Bowl Holds". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
5. "Georgia ends series with 14–7 victory". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 11, 1934. Retrieved September 26, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale Beats Princeton, 7-0: More Than 52,000 Astounded by Tigers' Inability to Score". The Sunday Times (New Brunswick, NJ). November 18, 1934. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.