1952 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1952 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1951
1953 →
1952 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Rochester     8 0 0
Hofstra     8 1 0
No. 19 Princeton     8 1 0
Franklin & Marshall     7 1 0
Villanova     7 1 1
Holy Cross     8 2 0
Yale     7 2 0
Penn State     7 2 1
No. 14 Syracuse     7 3 0
Bucknell     6 3 0
Colgate     6 3 0
Pittsburgh     6 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Harvard     5 4 0
Boston University     5 4 1
Penn     4 3 2
Army     4 4 1
Boston College     4 4 1
Tufts     3 4 1
Drexel     3 4 0
Fordham     2 5 1
NYU     2 5 1
Columbia     2 6 1
Brown     2 7 0
Cornell     2 7 0
Dartmouth     2 7 0
Temple     2 7 1
Buffalo     1 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1952 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1952 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Jordan Olivar, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 7–2 record.[1][2]

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 20ConnecticutW 34–1326,500[3]
September 27at NavyL 0–3125,000[4]
October 4Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–022,500[5]
October 11at Columbia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 35–2823,000[6]
October 18Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 13–031,000[7]
October 25Lafayette
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 47–018,000[8]
November 1Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 21–740,000[9]
November 15No. 16 Princeton
L 21–2762,000[10]
November 19at HarvardW 41–1438,114[11]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1952 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. ^ Black, Lou (September 21, 1952). "Yale Wins Lid-Lifter 34 to 13". Sunday News. Lancaster, Pa. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ McIver, Stuart B. (September 28, 1952). "Navy Beats Yale, 31 to 0, in Stadium". The Sunday Sun. Baltimore, Md. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Briordy, William J. (October 5, 1952). "Yale Aerial Attack Checks Brown, 28-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  6. ^ Werden, Lincoln A. (October 12, 1952). "Yale Tops Columbia, 35-28; Fumble Aids Elis". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. ^ Strauss, Michael (October 19, 1952). "Swift Eli Thrusts Trip Cornell, 13-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  8. ^ Griffith, Owen (October 26, 1952). "Yale Maintains Winning Record Against Lafayette with Easy 47-0 Victory". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Werden, Lincoln A. (November 2, 1952). "Elis 21-7 Victors over Dartmouth". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  10. ^ Danzig, Allison (November 16, 1952). "Princeton Beats Yale, 27-21; Tiger Takes Title". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  11. ^ Sheehan, Joseph M. (November 23, 1952). "Yale Tops Harvard, 41-14; Molloy Paces Elis". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.