Year: | 1955 |
Team: | Yale Bulldogs |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Ivy League |
Short Conf: | Ivy |
Record: | 7–2 |
Conf Record: | 5–1 |
Head Coach: | Jordan Olivar |
Hc Year: | 4th |
Captain: | Philip Tarasovic[1] |
Stadium: | Yale Bowl |
The 1955 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1955 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fourth-year head coach Jordan Olivar, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 7–2 record.[2] [3]
This would be Yale's final year as a football independent, as the Ivy League, which Yale had helped co-found in 1954, began football competition in 1956. Six of the nine opponents on the Bulldogs' 1955 schedule were Ivy League members (with Penn the only Ivy not scheduled); for decades, (future) Ivy members had comprised a large portion of Yale's opponents.