1926 Yale Bulldogs football team

1926 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–4
Head coach	Tad Jones (9th season)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Captain	Philip W. Bunnell[1]
Home stadium	Yale Bowl

1926 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 5 Lafayette			–					9	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Brown			–					9	–	0	–	1
NYU			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Army			–					7	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					7	–	1	–	1
Boston College			–					6	–	0	–	2
No. 10 Penn			–					7	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					6	–	1	–	1
Princeton			–					5	–	1	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	2	–	0
Springfield			–					6	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	2	–	1
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	2
Columbia			–					6	–	3	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	2	–	2
CCNY			–					5	–	3	–	0
Temple			–					5	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					4	–	4	–	0
Yale			–					4	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	5	–	1
Fordham			–					3	–	4	–	1
Harvard			–					3	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	6	–	0
Drexel			–					2	–	5	–	0
Boston University			–					2	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					1	–	8	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					0	–	8	–	1
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1926 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 4–4 record under ninth-year head coach Tad Jones.^[2]

Neither the Associated Press nor Collier's Weekly selected any Yale players for their 1926 College Football All-America Teams.^[3][4] However, Yale guard Herbert Sturhahn was named a first-team All-American for 1926 by the All-American Board composed of three coaches, Knute Rockne, Glenn Scobey Warner and Yale's Tad Jones.^[5] Sturhahn was also later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	Boston University	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 51–0
October 9	Georgia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 19–0		[6]
October 16	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–7	55,000	[7]
October 23	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–7
October 30	Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–33	75,000	[8]
November 6	Maryland	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–15		[9]
November 13	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 7–10	55,000	[10]
November 20	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 12–7		[11]

References

1. "Year By Year Scores: 1926". Yale Football Media Guide. 1964. p. 64. Retrieved November 26, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
2. "1926 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "Associated Press Picks All-American Eleven". Morning News Review. South Carolina. December 5, 1926.
4. "Seven Western Players Named On Collier's All-American; Big Three Teams Are Slighted". Charleston Daily Mail. December 6, 1926.
5. "Ten States Represented on Coaches' All-American Grid Selection". Davenport Democrat And Leader. December 19, 1926.
6. "Strong Yale Team Downs Plucky Georgia Eleven In Bowl By Three Touchdowns". The Hartford Courant. October 10, 1926. pp. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
7. Harrison, James R. (October 17, 1926). "Yale Aerial Attack Brings Victory, 14-7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
8. Leslie A. Young (October 31, 1926). "75,000 See Army Eleven Swamp Yale". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Jones Keeps Regulars In Stands While Maryland Smears Yale Subs 15 To 0: Blue Uses Second, Third And Fourth String Men". The Hartford Courant. November 7, 1926. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
10. William J. Lee (November 14, 1926). "Princeton Trounces Yale, 10-7: 55,000 People See Game That Decides Possible Final Championship of Famous 'Big Three'". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
11. Albert W. Keane (November 21, 1926). "Yale Fights Uphill Battle To Win 12-7". The Hartford Courant. pp. I-1, IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.