1939 Yale Bulldogs football team

1939 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–4–1
Head coach	Ducky Pond (6th season)
Captain	J. William Stack Jr. [1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ←  1938 1940  →

1939 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 4 Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Duquesne			–					8	–	0	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	0	–	1
Scranton			–					7	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
La Salle			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 11 Boston College			–					9	–	2	–	0
No. 17 Fordham			–					6	–	2	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	0
Boston University			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	1
Hofstra			–					4	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
Manhattan			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					3	–	3	–	2
Vermont			–					3	–	3	–	2
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	4	–	2
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	0
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	2
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	7	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	0
Buffalo			–					0	–	7	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1939 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 3–4–1 record. ^[2]

Yale was ranked at No. 73 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939. ^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 7	Columbia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 10–7
October 14	Penn	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–6	32,500	[4]
October 21	Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 20–15		[5]
October 28	at No. 3 Michigan	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI	L 7–27	54,480
November 4	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–33
November 11	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 14–14	32,000	[6]
November 18	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 7–13
November 25	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 20–7	52,000	[7]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

1. "Year By Year Scores: 1939". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 68. Retrieved November 26, 2024– via Internet Archive.
2. "1939 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
3. E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
4. Peterman, Cy (October 15, 1939). "Wexler's Pass to Gustafson Conquers Eli". Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. p. 1.
5. Robert Sylvester (October 22, 1939). "Yale Tops Army, 20-15". New York Daily News. p. C35 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale, Brown Wage 14-14 Deadlock". New York Daily News. November 12, 1939. p. C38 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Yale's 'Worst' Whips Harvard". New York Daily News. November 26, 1939. p. 39C – via Newspapers.com.