1945 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1945 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1945 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fourth-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 6–3 record.[2][3]

1945 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainPaul Walker[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1944
1946 →
1945 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Army     9 0 0
Franklin & Marshall     4 0 1
No. 20 Columbia     8 1 0
Temple     7 1 0
No. 16 Holy Cross     8 2 0
Tufts     4 1 0
No. 8 Penn     6 2 0
Yale     6 3 0
Massachusetts State     2 1 1
Harvard     5 3 0
Penn State     5 3 0
Cornell     5 4 0
Villanova     4 4 0
Boston College     3 4 0
Brown     3 4 1
Colgate     3 4 1
Princeton     2 3 2
NYU     3 4 0
Pittsburgh     3 7 0
Bucknell     2 5 0
Drexel     2 5 0
Dartmouth     1 6 1
Syracuse     1 6 0
Boston University     0 5 0
CCNY     0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29TuftsW 27–720,000[4]
October 6Holy Cross
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–2125,000[5]
October 13at ColumbiaL 13–2730,000[6]
October 27Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–730,000[7]
November 3Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 6–045,000[8]
November 10Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–2015,000[9]
November 17Coast Guard
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 41–610,000[10]
November 24at PrincetonW 20–1440,000[11]
December 1Harvard
W 28–035,000[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1945". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 69. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1945 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  3. ^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  4. ^ Keyes, Frank (September 30, 1945). "Vandy Kirk Scores All Four Touchdowns in Yale's 27-7 Win over Tufts; Long Pass Puts Jumbos into Short-Lived Lead". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Keyes, Frank (October 7, 1945). "Holy Cross Scores First Gridiron Victory over Yale by Score of 21 to 0; Eight Fumbles Shackle Bulldog Running Attack". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Columbia Trims Yale, 27 to 13". The Pittsburgh Press. October 14, 1945. p. 38 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ McGowen, Roscoe (October 28, 1945). "Yale Drives Halt Cornell, 18 to 7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  8. ^ Nason, Jerry (November 4, 1945). "Yale Student of 3 Days Defeats Dartmouth, 6-0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 32 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Brown Overcomes Favored Yale, 20-7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 11, 1945. p. S1.
  10. ^ Cunavelis, Jimmy (November 18, 1945). "Yale Trounces Coast Guard, 41 to 6, for 500th Intercollegiate Triumph; Penn, Scannell Lead Bulldogs to Victory". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Smith, Jack (November 25, 1945). "Yale Overcomes Early Lead, Nips Tiger, 20-14". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. C24 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Richardson, William D. (December 2, 1945). "Elis Triumph, 28-0; Fitzgerald's 3 Scores Help Crush Harvard". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.