1940 Yale Bulldogs football team

1940 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	1–7
Head coach	Ducky Pond (7th season)
Captain	Harold B. Whiteman [1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ←  1939 1941  →

1940 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 5 Boston College			–					11	–	0	–	0
Duquesne			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 14 Penn			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					6	–	1	–	1
No. 12 Fordham			–					7	–	2	–	0
No. 15 Cornell			–					6	–	2	–	0
La Salle			–					6	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					5	–	2	–	1
Columbia			–					5	–	2	–	2
Brown			–					6	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					4	–	2	–	2
Boston University			–					5	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					5	–	3	–	0
Hofstra			–					4	–	3	–	0
Harvard			–					3	–	2	–	3
Dartmouth			–					5	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	4	–	1
Tufts			–					4	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	4	–	1
Syracuse			–					3	–	4	–	1
Buffalo			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	0
Manhattan			–					3	–	6	–	0
Providence			–					3	–	6	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	7	–	0
Yale			–					1	–	7	–	0
Army			–					1	–	7	–	1
CCNY			–					1	–	5	–	1
Massachusetts State			–					1	–	8	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1940 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by seventh-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 1–7 record. ^[2]

Yale was ranked at No. 110 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940. ^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 5	Virginia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 14–19	25,000	[4]
October 12	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 7–50	50,000	[5]
October 19	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 13–7
October 26	Navy	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–21
November 2	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 2–6
November 9	No. 1 Cornell	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–21	30,000	[6]
November 16	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 7–10
November 23	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–28	47,000	[7]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

1. "Year By Year Scores: 1940". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 68. Retrieved November 26, 2024– via Internet Archive.
2. "1940 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
3. Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Virginia Cavaliers win from favored Yale team". The State. October 6, 1940. Retrieved July 2, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
5. Cy Peterman (October 13, 1940). "Penn Hands Yale Worst Defeat, 50-7". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. S1, S6 – via Newspapers.com.
6. Jack Mahon (November 10, 1940). "Cornell Batters Yale, 21-0". New York Daily News. p. 97 – via Newspapers.com.
7. Jerry Jerome (November 24, 1940). "Harvard Crushes Yale, 28 to 0". New York Daily news. p. 89 – via Newspapers.com.