1956 Ivy League football season

1956 Ivy League football season
LeagueNCAA University Division
SportFootball
DurationSeptember 29, 1956 –
November 24, 1956
Number of teams8
1957 NFL Draft
Top draft pickAl Ward (Yale)
Picked byChicago Bears, 91st overall
Regular season
ChampionsYale
Football seasons
1957 →
1956 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale $ 7 0 0 8 1 0
Princeton 5 2 0 7 2 0
Dartmouth 4 3 0 5 4 0
Penn 4 3 0 4 5 0
Brown 3 4 0 5 4 0
Columbia 2 5 0 3 6 0
Harvard 2 5 0 2 6 0
Cornell 1 6 0 1 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1956 Ivy League football season was the first season of college football play for the Ivy League and was part of the 1956 college football season. The season began on September 29, 1956, and ended on November 24, 1956. Ivy League teams were 4–7–1 against non-conference opponents and Yale won the conference championship.[1]

  1. ^ "1956 Ivy Group Year Summary". Sports Reference. Retrieved March 25, 2017.