1921 Yale Bulldogs football team

1921 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–1
Head coach	Tad Jones (4th season)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Captain	Malcolm Aldrich[1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl

1921 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	0	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	0	–	0
Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	2
Yale			–					8	–	1	–	0
New Hampshire			–					8	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	1	–	2
Villanova			–					6	–	1	–	2
Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	2	–	0
Harvard			–					7	–	2	–	1
Boston University			–					6	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					6	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Geneva			–					5	–	3	–	1
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	3	–	1
Holy Cross			–					5	–	3	–	0
Army			–					6	–	4	–	0
Princeton			–					4	–	3	–	0
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	1
Fordham			–					4	–	3	–	2
Penn			–					4	–	3	–	2
Colgate			–					4	–	4	–	2
Lehigh			–					4	–	4	–	0
Springfield			–					4	–	5	–	2
Vermont			–					3	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	3	–	3
Buffalo			–					2	–	3	–	2
Drexel			–					2	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	6	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					1	–	5	–	2
Duquesne			–					0	–	4	–	1

The 1921 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1921 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under fourth-year head coach Tad Jones. Yale outscored its opponents by a combined score of 202 to 31. Its sole loss came in the final game of the season, a 10–3 loss against Harvard at Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[2] Yale halfback Malcolm Aldrich was a consensus selection for the 1921 College Football All-America Team,^[3] receiving first-team honors from Walter Camp,^[4] Billy Evans, Walter Eckersall, Jack Veiock, Malcolm McLean,^[5] and Norman E. Brown.^[6]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	Bates	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 28–0
October 1	Vermont	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–0		[7]
October 8	North Carolina	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 34–0
October 15	Williams	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 23–0
October 22	Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–7
October 29	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 45–7	20,000	[8]
November 5	Maryland	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 28–0		[9]
November 12	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 13–7
November 19	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 3–10

References

1. "Year By Year Scores: 1921". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 63. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
2. "1921 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived July 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
4. "Walter Camp's All-America Selections for 1921" (PDF). The New York Times. December 21, 1921. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
5. "All-America Addendum -- Part 2" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
6. "Western Players Predominate On All American Team Picked By Normy Brown". Capital Times. November 28, 1921.
7. "Yale wakes up and beats Vermont 14–0". New York Herald. October 2, 1921. Retrieved June 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Brown Scores But Is Routed". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 30, 1921. p. 21. Retrieved March 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
9. "Yale Reserves Easily Defeat Maryland State". New York Tribune. November 6, 1921. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.