1943 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1943 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1943 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 4–5 record.^[1][2]

1943 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–5
Head coach	Howard Odell (2nd season)
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ← 1942 1944 →

1943 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Boston College			–					4	–	0	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					7	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					6	–	1	–	0
Rochester			–					6	–	1	–	0
No. 11 Army			–					7	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross			–					6	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	2	–	0
No. 20 Penn			–					6	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	0
Villanova			–					5	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					2	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					4	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	5	–	0
Temple			–					2	–	6	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	3	–	1
Princeton			–					1	–	6	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					0	–	4	–	1
Columbia			–					0	–	8	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Yale ranked 86th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 70.3.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 11	Muhlenberg	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 13–6
September 18	Rochester	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 12–14
September 25	Coast Guard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 20–12
October 2	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 7–41	30,000
October 9	at Columbia	Baker Field New York, NY	W 20–7
October 23	No. 2 Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 7–39
October 30	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 6–20
November 6	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 20–21
November 13	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 27–6	13,000	^[4]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

1. "1943 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
2. . College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
3. Litkenhous, E. E. (December 17, 1943). "Litkenhouse Selects U. S. Grid Leaders". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 18. Retrieved April 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com  .
4. Hy Turkin (November 14, 1943). "Yale Pens Tiger, 27-6". New York Daily News. p. 94 – via Newspapers.com.