1940 Yale Bulldogs football team

1940 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–7
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Boston College     11 0 0
Duquesne     7 1 0
No. 14 Penn     6 1 1
Penn State     6 1 1
No. 12 Fordham     7 2 0
No. 15 Cornell     6 2 0
La Salle     6 2 0
Princeton     5 2 1
Columbia     5 2 2
Brown     6 3 1
Bucknell     4 2 2
Boston University     5 3 0
Colgate     5 3 0
Hofstra     4 3 0
Harvard     3 2 3
Dartmouth     5 4 0
Temple     4 4 1
Tufts     4 4 0
Vermont     4 4 0
Villanova     4 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 4 1
Syracuse     3 4 1
Buffalo     3 5 0
Carnegie Tech     3 5 0
Manhattan     3 6 0
Providence     3 6 0
NYU     2 7 0
Yale     1 7 0
Army     1 7 1
CCNY     1 5 1
Massachusetts State     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1940 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by seventh-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 1–7 record.[1][2]

Yale was ranked at No. 110 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[3]

  1. ^ "1940 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  2. ^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  3. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.