1953 Ivy League football standings
| Conf. | | | Overall |
| Team | W | | L | | T | | | W | | L | | T |
| Cornell
| 3
| – | 0
| – | 2 | | | 4
| – | 3
| – | 2 |
| Harvard
| 3
| – | 2
| – | 0 | | | 6
| – | 2
| – | 0 |
| Yale
| 3
| – | 2
| – | 1 | | | 5
| – | 2
| – | 2 |
| Princeton
| 3
| – | 3
| – | 0 | | | 5
| – | 4
| – | 0 |
| Columbia
| 2
| – | 3
| – | 0 | | | 4
| – | 5
| – | 0 |
| Dartmouth
| 2
| – | 3
| – | 0 | | | 2
| – | 7
| – | 0 |
| Brown
| 0
| – | 3
| – | 0 | | | 3
| – | 5
| – | 1 |
| Penn
| 0
| – | 0
| – | 1 | | | 3
| – | 5
| – | 1 |
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- The Ivy League in 1953 completed on a league basis in baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis and swimming. In football, there was an agreement among the schools to establish conditions to assure sportsmanship and amateurism. Moreover, newspapers regularly printed football standings for the Ivy League schools.
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The 1953 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1953 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Jordan Olivar, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–2–2 record.