1951 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1951 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–5–2
Head coach
CaptainRobert Spears [1]
Home stadium Yale Bowl
Seasons
←  1950
1952  →
1951 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell  – 9 –0 –0
No. 6 Princeton  – 9 –0 –0
Susquehanna  – 6 –0 –0
Trenton State  – 6 –0 –0
Northeastern  – 6 –0 –1
No. 19 Holy Cross  – 8 –2 –0
Carnegie Tech  – 6 –2 –0
Hofstra  – 6 –2 –1
Cornell  – 6 –3 –0
No. 16 Boston University  – 6 –4 –0
Temple  – 6 –4 –0
Columbia  – 5 –3 –0
Villanova  – 5 –3 –0
Fordham  – 5 –4 –0
Franklin & Marshall  – 5 –4 –0
Penn  – 5 –4 –0
Penn State  – 5 –4 –0
Syracuse  – 5 –4 –0
Buffalo  – 4 –4 –0
Colgate  – 4 –5 –0
Dartmouth  – 4 –5 –0
Drexel  – 3 –4 –0
Harvard  – 3 –5 –1
Boston College  – 3 –6 –0
Yale  – 2 –5 –2
Pittsburgh  – 3 –7 –0
Geneva  – 2 –5 –0
Army  – 2 –7 –0
Brown  – 2 –7 –0
NYU  – 1 –7 –0
Tufts  – 0 –7 –2
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1951 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1951 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fourth-year head coach Herman Hickman, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 2–5–2 record. [2]

Contents

Yale was ranked at No. 95 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings. [3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22 Bates
W 48–018,000 [4]
September 29 Navy
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 7–755,000 [5]
October 6 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 13–1435,000 [6]
October 13at Columbia
L 0–1425,000 [7]
October 20No. 14 Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–2730,000 [8]
October 27 Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–720,000 [9]
November 3 Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 10–1420,000 [10]
November 17at No. 6 Princeton
L 0–2745,000 [11]
November 24 Harvard
T 21–2143,000 [12]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

NFL draft

The following Bulldog was selected in the National Football League draft following the season. [13]

RoundPickPlayerPositionNFL Team
16188Bob Spears B Chicago Bears

References

  1. ↑ "Year By Year Scores: 1951". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 71. Retrieved November 26, 2024– via Internet Archive.
  2. ↑ "1951 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Vols Top Final 1951 Litkenhous Ratings". The Nashville Banner. December 14, 1951. p. 49 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ Newell, Bill (September 23, 1951). "Yale Pummels Bates 48-0; Senay, Jim Ryan Sparkle". The Hartford Courant . Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Lee, Bill (September 30, 1951). "Yale Ties Navy, 7-7; Elis Score with Aerial in Thriller Before 55,000". The Hartford Courant . Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Nichols, Joseph C. (October 7, 1951). "Brown Stops Late Eli Drive to Register 14-13 Triumph". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. ↑ Sheehan, Joseph M. (October 14, 1951). "Price, Hansen Lead Lions to Victory on Baker Field". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  8. ↑ Danzig, Allison (October 21, 1951). "Big Red Air Drive Trims Elis, 27 to 0". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  9. ↑ Cline, Frank (October 28, 1951). "Yale Defeats Colgate, 27-7, to Regain Winning Form". The Hartford Courant . Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Nichols, Joseph C. (November 4, 1951). "Dartmouth Rally Subdues Elis, 14-10". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  11. ↑ Ward, Gene (November 18, 1951). "Princeton Rips Yale, 27-0, for 5th Big 3". Sunday News . New York, N.Y. p. 100 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ Werden, Lincoln A. (November 25, 1951). "Yale Rally Ties Harvard, 21-21; Eli Aerial Clicks". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  13. ↑ "1952 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
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