1951 Yale Bulldogs football team

1951 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–5–2
Head coach
CaptainRobert Spears[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1950
1952 →
1951 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Bucknell   –   9 – 0 – 0
No. 6 Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 0
Susquehanna   –   6 – 0 – 0
Trenton State   –   6 – 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.[2][3]

Yale was ranked at No. 95 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22Bates
W 48–018,000[5]
September 29Navy
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 7–755,000[6]
October 6Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 13–1435,000[7]
October 13at Columbia
L 0–1425,000[8]
October 20No. 14 Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–2730,000[9]
October 27Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 27–720,000[10]
November 3Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 10–1420,000[11]
November 17at No. 6 Princeton
L 0–2745,000[12]
November 24Harvard
T 21–2143,000[13]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1951". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 71. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1951 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  3. ^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  4. ^ "Vols Top Final 1951 Litkenhous Ratings". The Nashville Banner. December 14, 1951. p. 49 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Danzig, Allison (October 21, 1951). "Big Red Air Drive Trims Elis, 27 to 0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Nichols, Joseph C. (November 4, 1951). "Dartmouth Rally Subdues Elis, 14-10". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.