1951 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1951 Yale Bulldogs football team - Wikipedia

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1951 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	2–5–2
Head coach	Herman Hickman (4th season)
Captain	Robert Spears^[1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ← 1950 1952 →

1951 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 22	Bates	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 48–0	18,000	^[5]
September 29	Navy	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 7–7	55,000	^[6]
October 6	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 13–14	35,000	^[7]
October 13	at Columbia	Baker Field New York, NY	L 0–14	25,000	^[8]
October 20	No. 14 Cornell	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–27	30,000	^[9]
October 27	Colgate	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 27–7	20,000	^[10]
November 3	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 10–14	20,000	^[11]
November 17	at No. 6 Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–27	45,000	^[12]
November 24	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (The Game)	T 21–21	43,000	^[13]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

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

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