1936 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1936 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Ranking
AP	No. 12
Record	7–1
Head coach	Ducky Pond (3rd season)
Captain	Larry Kelley
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons← 1935 1937 →

1936 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Saint Anselm		–		6	–	0	–	1
No. 3 Pittsburgh		–		8	–	1	–	1
No. 10 Penn		–		7	–	1	–	0
No. 12 Yale		–		7	–	1	–	0
No. 13 Dartmouth		–		7	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall		–		7	–	1	–	1
No. 14 Duquesne		–		8	–	2	–	0
Boston College		–		6	–	1	–	2
Boston University		–		5	–	1	–	2
No. 15 Fordham		–		5	–	1	–	2
Holy Cross		–		7	–	2	–	1
Villanova		–		7	–	2	–	1
Army		–		6	–	3	–	0
Colgate		–		6	–	3	–	0
Drexel		–		6	–	3	–	0
Temple		–		6	–	3	–	2
La Salle		–		6	–	3	–	1
Buffalo		–		5	–	3	–	0
Columbia		–		5	–	3	–	0
Princeton		–		4	–	2	–	2
Saint Vincent		–		5	–	3	–	0
NYU		–		5	–	3	–	1
Manhattan		–		6	–	4	–	0
Northeastern		–		5	–	4	–	0
Bucknell		–		4	–	4	–	1
CCNY		–		4	–	4	–	0
Tufts		–		3	–	3	–	1
Harvard		–		3	–	4	–	1
Cornell		–		3	–	5	–	0
Penn State		–		3	–	5	–	0
Westminster (PA)		–		2	–	4	–	1
Brown		–		3	–	7	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		2	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts State		–		2	–	6	–	0
Providence		–		1	–	7	–	0
Syracuse		–		1	–	7	–	0
Vermont		–		1	–	8	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll

The 1936 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1936 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by third-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 7–1 record.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance
October 3	Cornell		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 23–0
October 10	Penn		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 7–0
October 17	at Navy		Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	W 12–7
October 24	Rutgers	No. 10	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 28–0
November 1	Dartmouth	No. 12	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 7–11
November 7	Brown		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–6
November 14	at Princeton		Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 26–23	57,000
November 21	Harvard		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 14–13	58,000
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

"Year By Year Scores: 1936". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 67. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
"1936 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
"Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
"Yale Rallies, Upsets Tigers, 26-23". New York Daily News. November 15, 1936. p. 102 – via Newspapers.com.
Jack Miley (November 22, 1936). "Yale Staves Off Harvard's Rally And Wins, 14-13". New York Daily News. p. 38C – via Newspapers.com.

v t e 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
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
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