The 1963 Yale Bulldogs football team represented

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in the

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. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach John Pont, played their home games at the

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and finished fourth in the

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with a 4–3 record, 6–3 overall. The November 23 game against Harvard was postponed to November 30 due to the

assassination of President Kennedy John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was in the vehicle wi ...

on November 22.

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