1947 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1947 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1947 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–3
Head coach	Howard Odell (6th season)
Captain	Endicott P. Davison^[1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ← 1946 1948 →

1947 Ivy Group football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 7 Penn	4	–	0	–	0	7	–	0	–	1
Princeton	4	–	2	–	0	5	–	3	–	0
Yale	3	–	2	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
No. 20 Columbia	2	–	2	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Harvard	1	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Brown	1	–	3	–	0	4	–	4	–	1
Dartmouth	3	–	4	–	0	4	–	4	–	1
Cornell	1	–	4	–	0	4	–	5	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll

The 1947 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1947 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 6–3 record.^[2]^[3]

Yale was ranked at No. 53 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.^[4]

Schedule

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Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Merchant Marine		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 34–13	18,000	^[5]
October 4	Cornell		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–0	50,000	^[6]
October 11	at No. 11 Columbia	No. 14	Baker Field New York, NY	W 17–7	35,000	^[7]
October 18	Wisconsin	No. 12	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–9	65,000	^[8]
October 25	Springfield		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 49–0	15,000	^[9]
November 1	Dartmouth		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 23–14	63,000	^[10]
November 8	Brown	No. 20	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 14–20	15,000	^[11]
November 15	at Princeton		Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–17	50,000	^[12]
November 22	Harvard		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 31–21	70,896	^[13]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Rankings

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Ranking movements
**Legend:** ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked
	Week
Poll	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
AP	14	12	—	—	20	—	—	—	—	—

References

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^ "Year By Year Scores: 1947". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 70. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
^ "1947 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 18, 1947). "Michigan National Champion in Final Litkenhous Ratings". Times. p. 47 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Bill Lee (September 28, 1947). "Nadherny's Play Enables Yale To Win". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Frank Keyes (October 5, 1947). "Elis Down Cornell, 14-0 On Sustained Advances". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Eli Overpower Lions With Air Attack, 17-7". The Daily News (New York City). October 12, 1947. p. 103 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Bill Lee (October 19, 1947). "Wisconsin Overcomes Yale In Bitterly Contested Game Before 65,000, By 9-0 Score". Hartford Courant. pp. IV-1, IV-5 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale Wallops Springfield By 49-0 Score". The Hartford Courant. October 26, 1947. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Hy Turkin (November 2, 1947). "Elis Top Dartmouth, 23-14". The Daily News (New York City). p. C41 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Roger Dover (November 9, 1947). "Surprising Brown Eleven Upsets Yale By 20 To 14". The Hartford Courant. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Mort Berry (November 16, 1947). "Yale Beaten By Princeton". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 33 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Vern Miller (November 23, 1947). "Yale Power Quells Fiery Crimson, 31-21". The Boston Globe. pp. 27, 30 – via Newspapers.com.

v t e Yale Bulldogs football
Venues	Hamilton Park (1872–1883) Yale Field (1884–1914, 1916) Yale Bowl (1914–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Harvard Princeton Lehigh: Yank Townsend Trophy
Culture & lore	1910 Vanderbilt game 1927 Georgia game 1968 Harvard game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank Handsome Dan "Boola Boola" Pigskin Parade Huddle
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
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