1929 Yale Bulldogs football team

1929 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf.			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
No. 3 Pittsburgh		–		9	–	1	–	0
Colgate		–		8	–	1	–	0
Fordham		–		7	–	0	–	2
Bucknell		–		8	–	2	–	0
No. 11 Penn		–		7	–	2	–	0
Boston College		–		7	–	2	–	1
Villanova		–		7	–	2	–	1
Cornell		–		6	–	2	–	0
Tufts		–		5	–	1	–	2
Harvard		–		5	–	2	–	1
		–		5	–	2	–	1
NYU		–		7	–	3	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		6	–	3	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	3	–	0
Syracuse		–		6	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		5	–	2	–	2
Drexel		–		6	–	3	–	1
Temple		–		6	–	3	–	1
Carnegie Tech		–		5	–	3	–	1
Army		–		6	–	4	–	1
Providence		–		3	–	3	–	2
Brown		–		5	–	5	–	0
Columbia		–		4	–	5	–	0
CCNY		–		2	–	4	–	2
Princeton		–		2	–	4	–	1
Boston University		–		3	–	6	–	0
Vermont		–		2	–	7	–	0

Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1929 college football season. In their second year under head coach Mal Stevens, the Bulldogs compiled a 5–2–1 record.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 5	Vermont	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 89–0		^[3]
October 12	at Georgia	Sanford Field Athens, GA	L 0–15	30,000–35,000	^[4]
October 19	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–6
October 26	Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 21–13
November 2	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 16–12	78,000	^[5]
November 9	Maryland	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 13–13	45,000	^[6]
November 16	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 13–0		^[7]
November 23	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 6–10

^ "Year By Year Scores: 1929". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 65. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
^ "1929 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
^ "Yale machine buries Vermont under avalanche of 13 touchdowns, 89 to 0". The Hartford Courant. October 6, 1929. Retrieved June 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Georgia pulls real surprise in beating Yale by 15 to 0 score". Allentown Morning Call. October 13, 1929. Retrieved December 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Kelley, Robert F. (November 3, 1929). "Ellis's 80-Yard Run Wins for Yale, 16-12, in Dartmouth Game". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ "Maryland ties Yale, 13–13, on brilliant aerial attack". The Brooklyn Daily Times. November 10, 1929. Retrieved December 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Albert W. Keane (November 17, 1929). "Yale Beats Princeton 13-0 Despite Absence Of Booth From Game". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.

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
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