1945 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1945 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1945 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fourth-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 6–3 record.[1][2]

1945 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1944
1946 →
1945 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 1 Army  900
Franklin & Marshall  401
No. 20 Columbia  810
Temple  710
No. 16 Holy Cross  820
Tufts  410
No. 8 Penn  620
Yale  630
Massachusetts State  211
Harvard  530
Penn State  530
Cornell  540
Villanova  440
Boston College  340
Brown  341
Colgate  341
Princeton  232
NYU  340
Pittsburgh  370
Bucknell  250
Drexel  250
Dartmouth  161
Syracuse  160
Boston University  050
CCNY  080
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29TuftsW 27–720,000[3]
October 6Holy Cross
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–2125,000[4]
October 13at ColumbiaL 13–2730,000[5]
October 27Cornell
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 18–730,000[6]
November 3Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 6–045,000[7]
November 10Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 7–2015,000[8]
November 17Coast Guard
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 41–610,000[9]
November 24at PrincetonW 20–1440,000[10]
December 1Harvard
W 28–035,000[11]

References