2017 Yale Bulldogs football | |
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Ivy League champion | |
Conference | Ivy League |
Ranking | |
STATS | No. 24 |
FCS Coaches | No. 24 |
Record | 9–1 (6–1 Ivy) |
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Offensive coordinator | Joe Conlin (4th season) |
Defensive coordinator | Sean McGowan (1st season) |
Home stadium | Yale Bowl |
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No. 24 Yale $ | 6 | – | 1 | 9 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbia | 5 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 5 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Penn | 4 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard | 3 | – | 4 | 5 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornell | 3 | – | 4 | 3 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Princeton | 2 | – | 5 | 5 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brown | 0 | – | 7 | 2 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2017 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season, winning the Ivy League title. The season marked the Bulldogs' 145th overall season. The team played its home games at Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut and were led by sixth-year head coach Tony Reno. They finished the season 9–1 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to become Ivy League champions for the first time since 2006 (when they shared the title) and to earn their first sole league title since 1980. Yale averaged 18,939 fans per game.
The 2017 season consisted of five home games and five away games. The Bulldogs hosted Ivy League foes Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Harvard for the 134th edition of The Game, and traveled to Dartmouth, Penn, and Princeton.
Yale's non-conference opponents were Lehigh, Fordham, and Holy Cross, all of the Patriot League. [1]
Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
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September 16 | 12:30 p.m. | at Lehigh * | PLN | W 56–28 | 4,996 | |
September 23 | 1:00 p.m. | Cornell | ELVN | W 49–24 | 10,926 | |
September 30 | 6:00 p.m. | at Fordham * | PLN | W 41–10 | 3,988 | |
October 7 | 1:30 p.m. | at Dartmouth | ESPN3 | L 27–28 | 8,114 | |
October 14 | 1:00 p.m. | Holy Cross * |
| ILN | W 32–0 | 8,709 |
October 21 | 1:00 p.m. | at Penn | TCN | W 24–19 | 6,408 | |
October 28 | 1:00 p.m. | Columbia |
| SNY | W 23–6 | 15,422 |
November 3 | 8:00 p.m. | Brown |
| NBCSN | W 34–7 | 8,216 |
November 11 | 1:00 p.m. | at Princeton | ELVN | W 35–31 | 11,229 | |
November 18 | 12:30 p.m. | Harvard |
| CNBC | W 24–3 | 51,426 |
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Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Yale | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 56 |
Lehigh | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 28 |
at Goodman Stadium • Bethlehem, PA
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Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Cornell | 3 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 24 |
Yale | 7 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 49 |
at Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT
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Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Yale | 21 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 41 |
Fordham | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
at Coffey Field • Bronx, NY
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Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Yale | 7 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 27 |
Dartmouth | 0 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 28 |
at Memorial Field • Hanover, NH
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Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Holy Cross | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yale | 3 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 32 |
at Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT
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Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Yale | 7 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 24 |
Penn | 7 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 19 |
at Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA
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Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Columbia | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Yale | 13 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 23 |
at Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT
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Brown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
Yale | 20 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 34 |
at Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT
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Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
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Yale | 0 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 35 |
Princeton | 7 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 31 |
at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ
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Harvard | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Yale | 0 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 24 |
at Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT
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