1952 Yale Bulldogs football team

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]

1952 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1951
1953 →
1952 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Rochester  800
Hofstra  810
No. 19 Princeton  810
Franklin & Marshall  710
Villanova  711
Holy Cross  820
Yale  720
Penn State  721
No. 14 Syracuse  730
Bucknell  630
Colgate  630
Pittsburgh  630
Carnegie Tech  430
Harvard  540
Boston University  541
Penn  432
Army  441
Boston College  441
Tufts  341
Drexel  340
Fordham  251
NYU  251
Columbia  261
Brown  270
Cornell  270
Dartmouth  270
Temple  271
Buffalo  170
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

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