1926 Yale Bulldogs football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1926
| team = Yale Bulldogs
| sport = football
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| conference = Independent
| record = 4–4
| head_coach = Tad Jones
| hc_year = 9th
| off_scheme = Single-wing
| def_scheme =
| captain = Philip W. Bunnell{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/yale1964/page/n33/mode/2up |magazine=Yale Football Media Guide |title=Year By Year Scores: 1926 |page=64 |date=1964 |accessdate=November 26, 2024 |via=Internet Archive}}
| stadium = Yale Bowl
}}
{{1926 Eastern college football independents records}}
The 1926 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1926 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 4–4 record under ninth-year head coach Tad Jones.{{cite web|title=1926 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=SR/College Football|access-date=February 27, 2017|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/yale/1926-schedule.html}}
Neither the Associated Press nor Collier's Weekly selected any Yale players for their 1926 College Football All-America Teams.{{cite news|title=Associated Press Picks All-American Eleven|work=Morning News Review|location=South Carolina|date=December 5, 1926}}{{cite news|title=Seven Western Players Named On Collier's All-American; Big Three Teams Are Slighted|work=Charleston Daily Mail|date=December 6, 1926}} However, Yale guard Herbert Sturhahn was named a first-team All-American for 1926 by the All-American Board composed of three coaches, Knute Rockne, Glenn Scobey Warner and Yale's Tad Jones.{{cite news|title=Ten States Represented on Coaches' All-American Grid Selection|publisher=Davenport Democrat And Leader|date=December 19, 1926}} Sturhahn was also later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Schedule
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|October 2| |Boston University|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|W 51–0||
|October 9| |Georgia|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|W 19–0||{{cite news|title=Strong Yale Team Downs Plucky Georgia Eleven In Bowl By Three Touchdowns|newspaper=The Hartford Courant|date=October 10, 1926|pages=IV-1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107395191/strong-yale-team-downs-plucky-georgia/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|October 16| |Dartmouth|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|W 14–7|55,000 | {{cite news |title=Yale Aerial Attack Brings Victory, 14-7 |first=James R. |last=Harrison |date=October 17, 1926 |page=S1 |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York, N.Y.}}
|October 23| |Brown|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|L 0–7||
|October 30| |Army|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|L 0–33|75,000|{{cite news|title=75,000 See Army Eleven Swamp Yale|newspaper=The Hartford Courant|author=Leslie A. Young|date=October 31, 1926|pages=I-1, IV-1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107395022/75000-see-army-eleven-swamp-yale/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|November 6| |Maryland|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|L 0–15||{{cite news|title=Jones Keeps Regulars In Stands While Maryland Smears Yale Subs 15 To 0: Blue Uses Second, Third And Fourth String Men|newspaper=The Hartford Courant|date=November 7, 1926|page=IV-1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107394611/jones-keeps-regulars-in-stands-while/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|November 13|at|Princeton (rivalry)|Palmer Stadium|Princeton, NJ|L 7–10|55,000|{{cite news|title=Princeton Trounces Yale, 10-7: 55,000 People See Game That Decides Possible Final Championship of Famous 'Big Three'|newspaper=The Hartford Courant|author=William J. Lee|date=November 14, 1926|pages=I-1, IV-1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107362810/princeton-trounces-yale-10-7-55000/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|November 20| |Harvard (rivalry)|Yale Bowl|New Haven, CT|W 12–7||{{cite news|title=Yale Fights Uphill Battle To Win 12-7|newspaper=The Hartford Courant|author=Albert W. Keane|date=November 21, 1926|pages=I-1, IV-1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107394781/yale-fights-uphill-battle-to-win-12-7/|via=Newspapers.com}}
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