1997 Yale Bulldogs football team

1997 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIvy League
Record2–8 (1–6 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1997 Ivy League football standings
Conf. Overall
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

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.

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.