1942 Yale Bulldogs football team

1942 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3
Head coach	Howard Odell (1st season)
Home stadium	Yale Bowl

1942 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Williams			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 19 Penn State			–					6	–	1	–	1
No. 8 Boston College			–					8	–	2	–	0
Buffalo			–					6	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					6	–	2	–	1
Army			–					6	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	0
Duquesne			–					6	–	3	–	1
Yale			–					5	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					5	–	3	–	1
No. T–19 Holy Cross			–					5	–	4	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	4	–	0
Brown			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	3	–	0
Boston University			–					4	–	5	–	0
Cornell			–					3	–	5	–	1
Princeton			–					3	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	5	–	3
Columbia			–					3	–	6	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					2	–	5	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					1	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	0
Harvard			–					2	–	6	–	1
Drexel			–					2	–	6	–	0
Manhattan			–					2	–	6	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1942 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1942 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–3 record.

Yale was ranked at No. 54 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 3	Lehigh	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 33–6
October 12	Penn	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 6–35
October 17	at Navy	Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	L 6–13
October 24	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 17–7
October 31	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 27–0
November 7	Cornell	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 7–13
November 14	vs. Princeton	Baker Field New York, NY (rivalry)	W 13–6	32,000
November 21	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 7–3