1951 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1951 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1951 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fourth-year head coach Herman Hickman, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 2–5–2 record.[1][2]

1951 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1951 record2–5–2
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1951 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Bucknell      9 0 0
No. 6 Princeton      9 0 0
Northeastern      6 0 1
No. 19 Holy Cross      8 2 0
Carnegie Tech      6 2 0
Hofstra      6 2 1
Cornell      6 3 0
No. 16 Boston University      6 4 0
Temple      6 4 0
Columbia      5 3 0
Villanova      5 3 0
Fordham      5 4 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 4 0
Penn      5 4 0
Penn State      5 4 0
Syracuse      5 4 0
Buffalo      4 4 0
Colgate      4 5 0
Dartmouth      4 5 0
Drexel      3 4 0
Harvard      3 5 1
Boston College      3 6 0
Yale      2 5 2
Pittsburgh      3 7 0
Army      2 7 0
Brown      2 7 0
NYU      1 7 0
Tufts      0 7 2
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22BatesW 48–018,000[3]
September 29Navy
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 7–755,000[4]
October 6Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 13–1435,000[5]
October 13at ColumbiaL 0–1425,000[6]
October 20No. 14 Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–2730,000[7]
October 27Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–720,000[8]
November 3Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 10–1420,000[9]
November 17at No. 6 PrincetonL 0–2745,000[10]
November 24Harvard
T 21–2143,000[11]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1951 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 23, 1951). "Yale Pummels Bates 48-0; Senay, Jim Ryan Sparkle". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  4. Lee, Bill (September 30, 1951). "Yale Ties Navy, 7-7; Elis Score with Aerial in Thriller Before 55,000". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  5. Nichols, Joseph C. (October 7, 1951). "Brown Stops Late Eli Drive to Register 14-13 Triumph". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  6. Sheehan, Joseph M. (October 14, 1951). "Price, Hansen Lead Lions to Victory on Baker Field". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. Danzig, Allison (October 21, 1951). "Big Red Air Drive Trims Elis, 27 to 0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  8. Cline, Frank (October 28, 1951). "Yale Defeats Colgate, 27-7, to Regain Winning Form". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  9. Nichols, Joseph C. (November 4, 1951). "Dartmouth Rally Subdues Elis, 14-10". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  10. Ward, Gene (November 18, 1951). "Princeton Rips Yale, 27-0, for 5th Big 3". Sunday News. New York, N.Y. p. 100 via Newspapers.com.
  11. Werden, Lincoln A. (November 25, 1951). "Yale Rally Ties Harvard, 21-21; Eli Aerial Clicks". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
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