1948 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1948 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1948 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first year head coach Herman Hickman, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 4–5 record.[1][2]

1948 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1948 record4–5
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1948 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 6 Army      8 0 1
No. 19 Cornell      8 1 0
Penn State      7 1 1
Buffalo      6 1 1
Villanova      8 2 1
Brown      7 2 0
Dartmouth      6 2 0
Boston College      5 2 2
Pittsburgh      6 3 0
Penn      5 3 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 3 1
Harvard      4 4 0
Princeton      4 4 0
Columbia      4 5 0
Yale      4 5 0
Tufts      3 4 1
Colgate      3 6 0
Fordham      3 6 0
NYU      3 6 0
Temple      2 6 1
Duquesne      2 7 0
Carnegie Tech      1 7 0
Hofstra      0 6 2
Bucknell      1 8 0
Syracuse      1 8 0
Drexel      0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25BrownW 28–1331,000[3]
October 2Connecticut
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–025,000[4]
October 9Columbia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 28–3455,000[5]
October 16at WisconsinW 17–744,000[6]
October 23Vanderbilt
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–3530,000[7]
October 30Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 14–4166,000[8]
November 6Merchant Marine
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 52–016,000[9]
November 13Princeton
L 14–2057,000[10]
November 20at HarvardL 7–2057,495[11]

References

  1. "1948 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  2. "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  3. Nichols, Joseph C. (September 26, 1948). "Yale Turns Back Brown by 28 to 13". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  4. Lee, Bill (October 3, 1948). "Bulldogs Hard Pressed to Defeat Connecticut". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. 1C via Newspapers.com.
  5. Effrat, Louis (October 10, 1948). "Columbia Tops Yale, 34-28; Kusserow Lion Ace". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  6. Casserly, Hank (October 17, 1948). "Yale Rallies to Humble Weak Wisconsin, 17 to 7; Fans Jeer Stuhldreher". The Capital Times. Madison, Wis. p. 35 via Newspapers.com.
  7. Turkin, Hy (October 24, 1948). "Commodores Overpower Yale, 35-0, on Ground". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. C37 via Newspapers.com.
  8. Sheehan, Joseph M. (October 31, 1948). "Dartmouth Beats Yale; Indians Win, 41-14". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  9. "Yale Smothers Kings Point". Brooklyn Eagle. Brooklyn, N.Y. United Press. November 7, 1948. p. 27 via Newspapers.com.
  10. McCulley, Jim (November 14, 1948). "Eli Scores Princeton, but Fails at End, 20-14". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. 95 via Newspapers.com.
  11. Trimble, Joe (November 21, 1948). "Cantabs End 7-Yr. Eli Drought, 20-7". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. 105 via Newspapers.com.
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