1953 Yale Bulldogs football team

American college football season

1953 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–2–2
Head coach	Jordan Olivar (2nd season)
Captain	Joe Fortunato
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons← 1952 1954 →

1953 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Westminster (PA)		–		8	–	0	–	0
Juniata		–		7	–	0	–	0
No. 14 Army		–		7	–	1	–	1
Harvard		–		6	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		5	–	2	–	0
Hofstra		–		6	–	3	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	3	–	0
Yale		–		5	–	2	–	2
Carnegie Tech		–		5	–	3	–	0
Boston College		–		5	–	3	–	1
Boston University		–		5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse		–		5	–	3	–	1
Princeton		–		5	–	4	–	0
Tufts		–		4	–	3	–	0
Cornell		–		4	–	3	–	2
Holy Cross		–		5	–	5	–	0
Temple		–		4	–	4	–	1
Colgate		–		3	–	4	–	2
Columbia		–		4	–	5	–	0
Fordham		–		4	–	5	–	0
Villanova		–		4	–	6	–	0
Drexel		–		2	–	3	–	1
Brown		–		3	–	5	–	1
Penn		–		3	–	5	–	1
Pittsburgh		–		3	–	5	–	1
Dartmouth		–		2	–	7	–	0
Buffalo		–		1	–	5	–	1
Bucknell		–		1	–	8	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll

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.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 26	Connecticut	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 32–0	20,000
October 3	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 13–0	24,000
October 8	Columbia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 13–7	28,000
October 17	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	T 0–0	25,000
October 24	Colgate	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 7–7	25,000
October 31	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–32	38,000
November 7	Temple	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 32–6	3,500
November 14	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 26–24	45,000
November 21	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (The Game)	L 0–13	65,000

References

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

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
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