1996 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1996 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1996 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Bulldogs were led by head coach Carmen Cozza in his 32nd and final season. They played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished in eighth place in the Ivy League with a 1–6 record, 2–8 overall.^[1]

Record2–8 (1–6 Ivy)

Headcoach

DefensivecoordinatorBob Shoop (3rd season)

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1996 Ivy League football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 17 Dartmouth $	7	–	0	10	–	0
Columbia	5	–	2	8	–	2
Brown	4	–	3	5	–	5
Cornell	4	–	3	4	–	6
Penn	3	–	4	5	–	5
Harvard	2	–	5	4	–	6
Princeton	2	–	5	3	–	7
Yale	1	–	6	2	–	8

$ – Conference champion Rankings from The Sports Network poll

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Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 21	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 30–0	7,304	^[2]
September 28	No. 16 Connecticut*	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 6–42	27,624	^[3]
October 5	at Army*	Michie Stadium West Point, NY	L 13–39	40,776	^[4]
October 12	Bucknell*	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 23–21	14,502	^[5]
October 19	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 6–40	10,119	^[6]
October 26	Columbia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 10–13	24,715	^[7]
November 2	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 3–20	19,203	^[8]
November 9	Cornell	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 20–28	7,655	^[9]
November 16	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 13–17	29,469	^[10]
November 23	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 21–26	24,470	^[11]
*Non-conference game Rankings from The Sports Network Poll released prior to the game

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