1928 Yale Bulldogs football team

1928 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Boston College		–		9	–	0	–	0
West Chester		–		8	–	0	–	0
Villanova		–		7	–	0	–	1
Brown		–		8	–	1	–	0
No. 11 Penn		–		8	–	1	–	0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech		–		7	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Army		–		8	–	2	–	0
Drexel		–		8	–	2	–	0
No. 10 NYU		–		8	–	2	–	0
Temple		–		7	–	1	–	2
Lafayette		–		6	–	1	–	2
Princeton		–		5	–	1	–	2
CCNY		–		4	–	1	–	2
Pittsburgh		–		6	–	2	–	1
Harvard		–		5	–	2	–	1
Tufts		–		5	–	2	–	1
Colgate		–		6	–	3	–	0
Rutgers		–		6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell		–		5	–	2	–	3
Columbia		–		5	–	3	–	1
Boston University		–		3	–	3	–	2
Cornell		–		3	–	3	–	2
Syracuse		–		4	–	4	–	1
Yale		–		4	–	4	–	0
Fordham		–		4	–	5	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		4	–	5	–	0
Penn State		–		3	–	5	–	1
Lehigh		–		3	–	6	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		2	–	5	–	2
Providence		–		1	–	5	–	3
Vermont		–		1	–	7	–	2

Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1928 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1928 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 4–4 record under first-year head coach Mal Stevens.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 6	Maine	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 27–0
October 13	Georgia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 21–6		^[2]
October 20	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 32–14
October 27	Army	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 6–18	76,000	^[3]
November 3	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 18–0	45,000	^[4]
November 10	Maryland	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–6		^[5]
November 17	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 2–12	60,000	^[6]
November 24	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–17		^[7]

^ "1928 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
^ "Flashing Runs of John Garvey Lead Yale to 21-6 Conquest of Georgia Crackers". The Hartford Courant. October 14, 1928. pp. IV-1, IV-8 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Chris Cagle's Dashes Down Yale, 18 To 6". The Hartford Courant. October 28, 1928. pp. I-1, IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Richardson, William D. (November 4, 1928). "Dartmouth Bows to Yale by 18 to 0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ William J. Lee (November 11, 1928). "Fighting Maryland Team Turns Back Yale, 6-0, In Amazing Upset At New Haven". The Hartford Courant – via Newspapers.com.
^ Perry Lewis (November 18, 1928). "Tigers Top Eli: Tiger Thrusts Rend Bulldogs Before 60,000". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 2S – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Harvard's Sweeping Power Crushes Yale In Completely Convincing 17-0 Victory: Eli Eleven Outclassed In Everything Save Punting". The Hartford Courant. November 25, 1928. p. IV-1 – via Newspapers.com.

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