1997 Yale Bulldogs football team
American college football season
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The 1997 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Jack Siedlecki, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished in seventh place in the Ivy League.
| 1997 Yale Bulldogs football | |
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| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 2–8[a] (1–6 Ivy) |
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| Home stadium | Yale Bowl |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard $ | 7 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 6 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 4 | – | 3 | 7 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 4 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 3 | – | 4 | 6 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 3 | – | 4 | 4 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 1 | – | 6 | 2 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn * | 0 | – | 7 | 1 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yale's record book lists a 1–9 record for 1997, 0–7 in Ivy League play.[1] The Ivy League record book, however, credits Yale with a conference win after Penn forfeited its victories. Yale is thus recorded by the league as its seventh-place finisher in 1997, ahead of Penn.[2]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 20 | Brown | L 14–52 | 15,315 | [3] | |
| September 27 | Connecticut* |
| L 0–28 | 16,367 | [4] |
| October 3 | vs. Valparaiso* | W 34–14 | 7,668 | [5] | |
| October 11 | Bucknell* |
| L 24–25 | 11,239 | [6] |
| October 18 | Dartmouth |
| L 7–21 | 17,973 | [7] |
| October 25 | at Columbia | L 10–21 | 4,665 | [8] | |
| November 1 | Penn |
| W 7–26[a] | 3,600 | [9][10] |
| November 8 | at Cornell | L 10–37 | 3,995 | [11] | |
| November 15 | vs. Princeton | L 0–9 | 7,731 | [12] | |
| November 22 | Harvard |
| L 7–17 | 26,064 | [13] |
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Note
^ a: In January 1998, Penn agreed to forfeit its Ivy League wins from 1997 after star defensive tackle Mitch Marrow was declared ineligible as a part-time student.[10] Both teams' record books claim their 1997 meeting, a 26–7 Penn victory on the field, as a loss. Yale thus computes its season record as 1–9, and its Ivy League record as 0–6. The Ivy League's own record book, however, regards the game as a Yale victory (by forfeit), and computes win–loss records and season standings accordingly.[2]