1997 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1997 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Jack Siedlecki, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished in seventh place in the Ivy League.

1997 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIvy League
Record2–8[a] (1–6 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1997 Ivy League football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
Harvard $  7 0   9 1  
Dartmouth  6 1   8 2  
Brown  4 3   7 3  
Cornell  4 3   6 4  
Princeton  3 4   6 4  
Columbia  3 4   4 6  
Yale  1 6   2 8  
Penn *  0 7   1 9  
  • $ Conference champion
  • * Standings reflect Penn's forfeit of five conference wins due to use of an ineligible player

Yale's record book lists a 1–9 record for 1997, 0–7 in Ivy League play. The Ivy League record book, however, credits Yale with a conference win after Penn forfeited its victories. Yale is thus recorded by the league as its seventh-place finisher in 1997, ahead of Penn.

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