1979 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1979 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Bulldogs were led by 15th-year head coach Carmen Cozza, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished in first place in the Ivy League with a 6–1 record, 8–1 overall.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 22	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 13–12	15,000	^[2]
September 29	Connecticut*	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 24–17	21,300	^[3]
October 6	Colgate*	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 27–0	18,500	^[4]
October 13	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 3–0	26,000	^[5]
October 20	at Columbia	Baker Field New York, NY	W 37–7	7,350	^[6]
October 27	Penn	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 24–6	19,852	^[7]
November 3	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 23–20	18,500	^[8]
November 10	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 35–10	22,825	^[9]
November 17	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (The Game)	L 7–22	72,000	^[10]
*Non-conference game

1979 Yale Bulldogs football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
RB	`7`	Rich Diana	So
QB	`6`	Dennis Dunn	Sr
RB	`42`	Kenny Hill	Sr

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
DE	`99`	John Kelly	Jr
LB	`37`	Scott McKenzie	Jr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

^ "1979 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
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^ Visser, Lesley (November 4, 1979). "Miracle Catch Keys Yale's 700th Win". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 52 – via Newspapers.com.
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^ Concannon, Joe (November 18, 1979). "Harvard Gets Up, Yale Goes Down, 22-7". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 71 – via Newspapers.com.