1939 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1939 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1939 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 3–4–1 record.^[1][2]

1939 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–4–1
Head coach	Ducky Pond (6th season)
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ← 1938 1940 →

1939 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 4 Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Duquesne			–					8	–	0	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	0	–	1
Scranton			–					7	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
La Salle			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 11 Boston College			–					9	–	2	–	0
No. 17 Fordham			–					6	–	2	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	0
Boston University			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	1
Hofstra			–					4	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
Manhattan			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					3	–	3	–	2
Vermont			–					3	–	3	–	2
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	4	–	2
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	0
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	2
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	7	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	0
Buffalo			–					0	–	7	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Yale was ranked at No. 73 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 7	Columbia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 10–7
October 14	Penn	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–6
October 21	Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 20–15		^[4]
October 28	at No. 3 Michigan	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI	L 7–27	54,480
November 4	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–33
November 11	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 14–14	32,000	^[5]
November 18	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 7–13
November 25	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 20–7	52,000	^[6]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

1. "1939 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
2. . College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
3. E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
4. Robert Sylvester (October 22, 1939). "Yale Tops Army, 20-15". New York Daily News. p. C35 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Yale, Brown Wage 14-14 Deadlock". New York Daily News. November 12, 1939. p. C38 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale's 'Worst' Whips Harvard". New York Daily News. November 26, 1939. p. 39C – via Newspapers.com.