1938 Yale Bulldogs football team

1938 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	2–6
Head coach	Ducky Pond (5th season)
Home stadium	Yale Bowl

1938 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Worcester Tech			–					6	–	0	–	0
No. 18 Villanova			–					8	–	0	–	1
No. 9 Holy Cross			–					8	–	1	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	1	–	2
No. 15 Fordham			–					6	–	1	–	2
No. 12 Cornell			–					5	–	1	–	1
Army			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 8 Pittsburgh			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	2	–	0
No. 20 Dartmouth			–					7	–	2	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	0
CCNY			–					4	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					3	–	2	–	3
Manhattan			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
La Salle			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					4	–	4	–	0
Boston University			–					3	–	4	–	1
Penn State			–					3	–	4	–	1
Princeton			–					3	–	4	–	1
Hofstra			–					2	–	3	–	1
Duquesne			–					4	–	6	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	6	–	1
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					3	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					3	–	6	–	0
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	0
Buffalo			–					2	–	6	–	0
Yale			–					2	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					1	–	6	–	1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1938 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1938 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fifth-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 2–6 record.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 1	Columbia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 14–27	35,000
October 8	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–21
October 15	Navy	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 9–7
October 22	No. 12 Michigan	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 13–15	29,261
October 29	No. 6 Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 6–24
November 5	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 20–14
November 12	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 7–20
November 19	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	L 0–7	62,000
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game