2019 Yale Bulldogs football team

2019 Yale Bulldogs football
Ivy League co-champion
Conference	Ivy League
Ranking
STATS	No. 25
FCS Coaches	No. 24
Record	9–1 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach	Tony Reno (8th season)
Offensive coordinator	Kevin Cahill (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator	Sean McGowan (3rd season)
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Uniform

2019 Ivy League football standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 22 Dartmouth +		6	–	1					9	–	1
No. 25 Yale +		6	–	1					9	–	1
Princeton		5	–	2					8	–	2
Penn		3	–	4					5	–	5
Cornell		3	–	4					4	–	6
Harvard		2	–	5					4	–	6
Columbia		2	–	5					3	–	7
Brown		1	–	6					2	–	8
+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from STATS Poll

The Bulldogs defeated Cornell, 27–16.

The 2019 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The season marked the Bulldogs's 147th overall season. The team played its home games at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut and were led by eighth-year head coach Tony Reno. They were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 9–1 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to share the Ivy League title with Dartmouth. Yale averaged 12,132 fans per game.

Preseason

Preseason media poll

The Ivy League released their preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Bulldogs were picked to finish in first place.

Predicted finish	Team	Votes (1st place)
1	Yale	119 (9)
2	Dartmouth	111 (2)
3	Princeton	107 (4)
4	Harvard	93 (1)
5	Penn	67
6	Columbia	61 (1)
7	Cornell	29
8	Brown	24

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 21	1:00 p.m.	Holy Cross*		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	ESPN+	W 23–10	5,684
September 28	1:00 p.m.	Cornell		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	ESPN+	W 27–16	5,723
October 5	1:00 p.m.	Fordham*		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	ESPN+/NESN Plus	W 48–24	5,743
October 12	1:30 p.m.	at Dartmouth		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	ESPN+	L 10–42	6,796
October 19	6:00 p.m.	at Richmond*		E. Claiborne Robins Stadium Richmond, VA	FloSports	W 28–27	7,510
October 26	Noon	Penn		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	ESPN+/NESN	W 46–41	4,990
November 2	Noon	Columbia		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	ESPN+	W 45–10	5,667
November 9	12:30 p.m.	at Brown		Brown Stadium Providence, RI	ESPN+	W 59–35	2,876
November 16	1:00 p.m.	at No. 18 Princeton		Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	ESPN+	W 51–14	6,676
November 23	Noon	Harvard	No. 24	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	ESPNU	W 50–43 2OT	44,989
*Non-conference game Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

Roster

Game summaries

Holy Cross

	1	2	3	4	Total
Crusaders	0	3	0	7	10
Bulldogs	6	0	7	10	23

Cornell

	1	2	3	4	Total
Big Red	0	3	7	6	16
Bulldogs	3	0	7	17	27

Fordham

	1	2	3	4	Total
Rams	7	3	0	14	24
Bulldogs	17	28	0	3	48

At Dartmouth

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	0	3	0	7	10
Big Green	21	7	14	0	42

At Richmond

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	0	7	7	14	28
Spiders	3	17	7	0	27

Penn

	1	2	3	4	Total
Quakers	0	13	14	14	41
Bulldogs	7	6	13	20	46

Columbia

	1	2	3	4	Total
Lions	0	3	0	7	10
Bulldogs	7	14	3	21	45

At Brown

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	17	7	18	17	59
Bears	0	21	7	7	35

At Princeton

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	3	27	7	14	51
No. 18 Tigers	0	7	7	0	14

Harvard

	1	2	3	4	OT	2OT	Total
Crimson	3	12	14	7	7	0	43
No. 24 Bulldogs	3	0	16	17	7	7	50

Ranking movements

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
RV = Received votes

	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Final
STATS FCS	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	24	25
Coaches	RV										RV	RV	25	24

References

1. ^ "Yale Named League Favorite in 2019 Football Preseason Poll". ivyleague.com. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
2. ^ Wilmer, Brian (April 3, 2019). "Yale releases 2019 football schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
3. ^ "2019 Yale Football Schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved April 9, 2019.

v t e Yale Bulldogs football
Venues	Hamilton Park (1872–1883) Yale Field (1884–1914, 1916) Yale Bowl (1914–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Harvard Princeton
Culture & lore	1910 Vanderbilt game 1927 Georgia game 1968 Harvard game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank Handsome Dan "Boola Boola" Pigskin Parade Huddle
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
National championship seasons in bold

v t e Ivy League football champions
I-A/FBS	Yale (1956) Princeton (1957) Dartmouth (1958) Penn (1959) Yale (1960) Columbia & Harvard (1961) Dartmouth (1962) Dartmouth & Princeton (1963) Princeton (1964) Dartmouth (1965) Dartmouth, Harvard, & Princeton (1966) Yale (1967) Harvard & Yale (1968) Dartmouth, Yale, & Princeton (1969) Dartmouth (1970) Dartmouth & Cornell (1971) Dartmouth (1972) Dartmouth (1973) Yale (1974) Harvard (1975) Yale & Brown (1976) Yale (1977) Dartmouth (1978) Yale (1979) Yale (1980) Yale & Dartmouth (1981)
I-AA/FCS	Dartmouth, Harvard & Penn (1982) Harvard & Penn (1983) Penn (1984) Penn (1985) Penn (1986) Harvard (1987) Penn & Cornell (1988) Yale & Princeton (1989) Dartmouth & Cornell (1990) Dartmouth (1991) Dartmouth & Princeton (1992) Penn (1993) Penn (1994) Princeton (1995) Dartmouth (1996) Harvard (1997) Penn (1998) Brown & Yale (1999) Penn (2000) Harvard (2001) Penn (2002) Penn (2003) Harvard (2004) Brown (2005) Princeton & Yale (2006) Harvard (2007) Harvard & Brown (2008) Penn (2009) Penn (2010) Harvard (2011) Penn (2012) Harvard & Princeton (2013) Harvard (2014) Harvard, Dartmouth, & Penn (2015) Princeton & Penn (2016) Yale (2017) Princeton (2018) Dartmouth & Yale (2019) No season (2020) Dartmouth & Princeton (2021) Yale (2022) Dartmouth, Harvard, & Yale (2023)