1942 Yale Bulldogs football team

1942 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
CaptainSpencer Moseley
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1942 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Williams    7 1 0
No. 19 Penn State    6 1 1
No. 8 Boston College    8 2 0
Buffalo    6 2 0
Bucknell    6 2 1
Colgate    6 2 1
Army    6 3 0
Syracuse    6 3 0
Duquesne    6 3 1
Yale    5 3 0
Fordham    5 3 1
Penn    5 3 1
No. T–19 Holy Cross    5 4 1
Dartmouth    5 4 0
Brown    4 4 0
Villanova    4 4 0
Vermont    4 3 0
Carnegie Tech    3 3 0
Boston University    4 5 0
Cornell    3 5 1
Princeton    3 5 1
Temple    2 5 3
Columbia    3 6 0
Pittsburgh    3 6 0
Tufts    2 5 1
Franklin & Marshall    1 4 2
Massachusetts State    2 5 0
Harvard    2 6 1
Manhattan    2 6 0
CCNY    1 7 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1942 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1942 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Howie Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–3 record.

Yale was ranked at No. 54 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.