1953 Yale Bulldogs football team

1953 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–2
Head coach
CaptainJoe Fortunato[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1953 Ivy League football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell 3 – 0 – 2 4 – 3 – 2
Harvard 3 – 2 – 0 6 – 2 – 0
3 – 2 – 1 5 – 2 – 2
Princeton 3 – 3 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Columbia 2 – 3 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Dartmouth 2 – 3 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Brown 0 – 3 – 0 3 – 5 – 1
Penn 0 – 0 – 1 3 – 5 – 1
  • The Ivy League in 1953 completed on a league basis in baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis and swimming. In football, there was an agreement among the schools to establish conditions to assure sportsmanship and amateurism. Moreover, newspapers regularly printed football standings for the Ivy League schools.

The 1953 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1953 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Jordan Olivar, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–2–2 record.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26Connecticut
W 32–020,000[3]
October 3Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 13–024,000[4]
October 8Columbia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 13–728,000[5]
October 17at Cornell
T 0–025,000[6]
October 24Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 7–725,000[7]
October 31Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–3238,000[8]
November 7Temple
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 32–63,500[9]
November 14at Princeton
W 26–2445,000[10]
November 21Harvard
L 0–1365,000[11]

References

  1. ^ "Year By Year Scores: 1953". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 71. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "1953 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Newell, Bill (September 27, 1953). "Yale Trims Uconns with Late Splurge". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Nichols, Joseph C. (October 4, 1953). "Yale 13-to-0 Victor over Brown Team". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  5. ^ Danzig, Allison (October 11, 1953). "Yale Beats Columbia, 13-7; Elis Find Punch". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  6. ^ Werden, Lincoln A. (October 18, 1953). "Elis and Cornell in Scoreless Game". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. ^ Griffith, Owen (October 25, 1953). "Colgate Rallies to Gain Tie with Yale". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. 3, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Sheehan, Joseph M. (November 1, 1953). "Dartmouth Upsets Yale; Elis Crushed, 32-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  9. ^ "Yale Gridders Top Temple by 32 to 6". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. November 8, 1953. sect. III, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Danzig, Allison (November 15, 1953). "Yale Defeats Princeton, 26-24; Elis Click on Pass". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  11. ^ Danzig, Allison (November 22, 1953). "Harvard Trips Yale, 13-0; Big 3 Deadlocked". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
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