2008 Yale Bulldogs football team

2008 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference	Ivy League
Record	6–4 (4–3 Ivy)
Head coach	Jack Siedlecki (12th season)
Home stadium	Yale Bowl
Seasons ← 2007 2009 →

2008 Ivy League football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 15 Harvard +	6	–	1	9	–	1
Brown +	6	–	1	7	–	3
Penn	5	–	2	6	–	4
Yale	4	–	3	6	–	4
Princeton	3	–	4	4	–	6
Cornell	2	–	5	4	–	6
Columbia	2	–	5	2	–	8
Dartmouth	0	–	7	0	–	10

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 2008 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Tale averaged 11,070 fans per game. The Bulldogs were led by 12th-year head coach Jack Siedlecki, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished tied for first place in the Ivy League with a 4–3 record, 6–4 overall.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 20	Georgetown*	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 47–7	12,771	^[2]
September 27	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 14–17	13,142	^[3]
October 4	Holy Cross*	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 31–28	14,512	^[4]
October 11	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 34–7	7,411	^[5]
October 18	at Fordham*	Coffey Field Bronx, NY	L 10–12	6,873	^[6]
October 25	Penn	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 7–9	10,490	^[7]
November 1	Columbia	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 27–12	11,870	^[8]
November 8	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 13–3	9,010	^[9]
November 15	Princeton	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	W 14–0	5,711	^[10]
November 22	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (The Game)	L 0–10	31,398	^[11]
*Non-conference game

References

^ "Football By Year" (PDF). Yale Bulldogs. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 17, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
^ "Pitch and Catch: Hart, Fodor Combine to Throw for Four TDs". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. Associated Press. September 21, 2008. pp. E6, E11 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Thomas, Brandon (September 28, 2008). "Big Red Washes Out Yale". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
^ Toland, Jennifer (October 5, 2008). "Another Heartbreaker for HC; Yale Wins on FG in Second Overtime". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. C17 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale Delivers by Ground and by Air". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. October 12, 2008. pp. E7, E9 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Fordham Finally Breaks Yale with Late FG". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. October 19, 2008. p. E5 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Tannenwald, Jonathan (October 26, 2008). "Samson Hits 3 Field Goals in 2d Half to Lift Penn to Win". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. E3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Spiegel, Jay (November 2, 2008). "Bulldogs Capitalize on Columbia's Slips". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. E7 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Fuller, Jim (November 9, 2008). "Bulldogs Show Hart, Keep Title Hopes Alive". New Haven Register. New Haven, Conn. p. D1 – via NewsBank.
^ Spiegel, Jay (November 16, 2008). "A Twin Killing: Abare Brothers Set Up Yale TDs". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. E7 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Powers, John (November 23, 2008). "Chilled Bubbly: Harvard Can Toast a Victory Well Earned". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. D1 – via Newspapers.com.

v t e Yale Bulldogs football
Venues	Hamilton Park (1872–1883) Yale Field (1884–1914, 1916) Yale Bowl (1914–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Harvard Princeton
Culture & lore	1910 Vanderbilt game 1927 Georgia game 1968 Harvard game (Harvard Beats Yale 29–29) 2004 Harvard–Yale prank Handsome Dan "Boola Boola" Pigskin Parade Huddle
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
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