1945 Yale Bulldogs football team

1945 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–3
Head coach	Howard Odell (4th season)
Home stadium	Yale Bowl

1945 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 1 Army			–					9	–	0	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					4	–	0	–	1
No. 20 Columbia			–					8	–	1	–	0
Temple			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 16 Holy Cross			–					8	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					4	–	1	–	0
No. 8 Penn			–					6	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					6	–	3	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	1	–	1
Harvard			–					5	–	3	–	0
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					3	–	4	–	0
Brown			–					3	–	4	–	1
Colgate			–					3	–	4	–	1
Princeton			–					2	–	3	–	2
NYU			–					3	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	7	–	0
Bucknell			–					2	–	5	–	0
Drexel			–					2	–	5	–	0
Dartmouth			–					1	–	6	–	1
Syracuse			–					1	–	6	–	0
Boston University			–					0	–	5	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	8	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1945 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1945 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fourth-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 6–3 record.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 29	Tufts	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 27–7
October 6	Holy Cross	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–21
October 13	at Columbia	Baker Field New York, NY	L 13–27
October 27	Cornell	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 18–7
November 3	Dartmouth	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 6–0
November 10	Brown	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 7–20
November 17	Coast Guard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 41–6
November 24	Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 20–14
December 1	Harvard	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 28–0