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1939 Yale Bulldogs football team

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The 1939 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1939 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 3–4–1 record.[2]

ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4–1
Headcoach
CaptainJ. William Stack Jr.[1]
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1939 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4–1
Head coach
CaptainJ. William Stack Jr.[1]
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
 1938
1940 
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1939 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Cornell  800
No. 10 Duquesne  801
Swarthmore  601
Scranton  702
Princeton  710
La Salle  611
Penn State  512
No. 11 Boston College  920
No. 17 Fordham  620
Villanova  620
Boston University  530
Brown  531
Dartmouth  531
Hofstra  430
NYU  540
Pittsburgh  540
Harvard  440
Manhattan  440
Penn  440
Syracuse  332
Vermont  332
Tufts  341
Yale  341
Army  342
Bucknell  350
Carnegie Tech  350
Providence  350
Columbia  242
Massachusetts State  252
Colgate  251
Temple  270
CCNY  170
Buffalo  070
Rankings from AP Poll
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Yale was ranked at No. 73 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[3]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 7ColumbiaW 10–7
October 14Penn
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–632,500[4]
October 21Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 20–15[5]
October 28at No. 3 MichiganL 7–2754,480
November 4Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–33
November 11Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
T 14–1432,000[6]
November 18Princeton
L 7–13
November 25at HarvardW 20–752,000[7]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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