1950 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1950 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1950 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by third-year head coach Herman Hickman, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 6–3 record.[1][2]

1950 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1950 record6–3
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1950 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Franklin & Marshall      9 0 0
No. 6 Princeton      9 0 0
No. 2 Army      8 1 0
Fordham      8 1 0
Carnegie Tech      7 1 0
Drexel      6 1 0
No. 20 Cornell      7 2 0
Bucknell      6 3 0
Penn      6 3 0
Yale      6 3 0
Buffalo      5 3 0
Colgate      5 3 0
Penn State      5 3 1
Syracuse      5 5 0
Temple      4 4 1
Tufts      4 4 1
Columbia      4 5 0
Villanova      4 5 0
Holy Cross      4 5 1
Dartmouth      3 5 1
Duquesne      2 6 1
Hofstra      2 6 0
NYU      1 5 1
Harvard      1 7 0
Brown      1 8 0
Pittsburgh      1 8 0
Boston College      0 9 1
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23ConnecticutW 25–024,000[3]
September 30Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–1235,000[4]
October 7Fordham
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–1435,000[5]
October 14Columbia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–1430,000[6]
October 15at No. 17 CornellL 0–732,000[7]
October 28Holy Cross
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–1330,000[8]
November 4Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–735,000[9]
November 18No. 7 Princeton
L 12–4759,000[10]
November 25at HarvardW 14–640,000[11]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1950 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  2. "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  3. Newell, Bill (September 24, 1950). "Spears Sparks Yale to 25-0 Victory over Connecticut Gridmen". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  4. Nichols, Joseph C. (October 1, 1950). "Yale Speed Trims Brown Team, 36-12". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  5. Keyes, Frank (October 8, 1950). "Yale Staves Off Ram Drive to Triumph at Bowl, 21-14". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 4 via Newspapers.com.
  6. Nichols, Joseph C. (October 15, 1950). "Yale Tops Columbia; Elis Triumph, 20-14". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. Danzig, Allison (October 22, 1950). "Cornell Defeats Yale, 7-0; Battle at Ithaca". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  8. Lee, Bill (October 29, 1950). "Luck, Skill of Irish at Yale Too Much for Holy Cross". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  9. Werden, Lincoln A. (November 5, 1950). "Tyler Scores Touchdown as Big Green Trims Yale". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  10. Danzig, Allison (November 19, 1950). "Tiger Keeps Title" (PDF). The New York Times. New Haven, Conn.
  11. Nichols, Joseph C. (November 26, 1950). "Yale Downs Harvard; Elis in Front, 14-6". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
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