en 1943 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1943 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1943 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 4–5 record.^[2]^[3]

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Yale ranked 86th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 70.3.^[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 11	Muhlenberg	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 13–6
September 18	Rochester	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 12–14
September 25	Coast Guard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 20–12
October 2	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 7–41	30,000
October 9	at Columbia	Baker Field New York, NY	W 20–7
October 23	No. 2 Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 7–39
October 30	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 6–20
November 6	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 20–21
November 13	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 27–6	13,000	^[5]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

^ "Year By Year Scores: 1943". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 69. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
^ "1943 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
^ "Yale Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
^ Litkenhous, E. E. (December 17, 1943). "Litkenhouse Selects U. S. Grid Leaders". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 18. Retrieved April 16, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
^ Hy Turkin (November 14, 1943). "Yale Pens Tiger, 27-6". New York Daily News. p. 94 – via Newspapers.com.