1921 Yale Bulldogs football team

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1921 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1921 record8–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumYale Bowl
Seasons
← 1920
1922 →
1921 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Washington & Jefferson   –   10 – 0 – 1
Lafayette   –   9 – 0 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   8 – 0 – 2
Yale   –   8 – 1 – 0
New Hampshire   –   8 – 1 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 1 – 2
Villanova   –   6 – 1 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   7 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   7 – 2 – 0
Harvard   –   7 – 2 – 1
Boston University   –   6 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   5 – 3 – 1
Geneva   –   5 – 3 – 1
Pittsburgh   –   5 – 3 – 1
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
Army   –   6 – 4 – 0
Princeton   –   4 – 3 – 0
Boston College   –   4 – 3 – 1
Fordham   –   4 – 3 – 2
Penn   –   4 – 3 – 2
Colgate   –   4 – 4 – 2
Lehigh   –   4 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 3 – 3
Drexel   –   2 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –   4 – 6 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   3 – 5 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 6 – 0
Tufts   –   1 – 5 – 2
Duquesne   –   0 – 4 – 1

The 1921 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1921 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under fourth-year head coach Tad Jones. Yale outscored its opponents by a combined score of 202 to 31. Its sole loss came in the final game of the season, a 10–3 loss against Harvard at Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] Yale halfback Malcolm Aldrich was a consensus selection for the 1921 College Football All-America Team,[2] receiving first-team honors from Walter Camp,[3] Billy Evans, Walter Eckersall, Jack Veiock, Malcolm McLean,[4] and Norman E. Brown.[5]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24 Bates
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–0
October 1 Vermont
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–0[6]
October 8 North Carolina
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 34–0
October 15 Williams
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 23–0
October 22 Army
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 14–7
October 29 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 45–720,000[7]
November 5 Maryland
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 28–0[8]
November 12 Princeton
W 13–7
November 19at Harvard
L 3–10

References[]

  1. ^ "1921 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived July 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Walter Camp's All-America Selections for 1921" (PDF). The New York Times. December 21, 1921. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  4. ^ "All-America Addendum -- Part 2" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. November 2008.
  5. ^ "Western Players Predominate On All American Team Picked By Normy Brown". Capital Times. November 28, 1921.
  6. ^ "Yale wakes up and beats Vermont 14–0". New York Herald. October 2, 1921. Retrieved June 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Brown Scores But Is Routed". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 30, 1921. p. 21. Retrieved March 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. ^ "Yale Reserves Easily Defeat Maryland State". New York Tribune. November 6, 1921. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
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