1951 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–5–2
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1951 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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
Geneva   –  2 –5 –0
Army   –  2 –7 –0
Brown   –  2 –7 –0
NYU   –  1 –7 –0
Tufts   –  0 –7 –2
Rankings from AP Poll

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]

Yale was ranked at No. 95 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22Bates
W 48–018,000[4]
September 29Navy
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 7–755,000[5]
October 6Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 13–1435,000[6]
October 13at Columbia
L 0–1425,000[7]
October 20No. 14 Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–2730,000[8]
October 27Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–720,000[9]
November 3Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 10–1420,000[10]
November 17at No. 6 Princeton
L 0–2745,000[11]
November 24Harvard
T 21–2143,000[12]
  • 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. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Vols Top Final 1951 Litkenhous Ratings". The Nashville Banner. December 14, 1951. p. 49 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Danzig, Allison (October 21, 1951). "Big Red Air Drive Trims Elis, 27 to 0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Nichols, Joseph C. (November 4, 1951). "Dartmouth Rally Subdues Elis, 14-10". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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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