The 1997 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the

1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season The 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I-AA level, began in August 1997, and concluded with the 1997 NCAA Divisi ...

. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach

Jack Siedlecki Jack "Sid" Siedlecki (pronounced ; born July 23, 1951) is an American former college football coach. He was a head coach in college football for 21 years for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1988–1992), Amherst College (1993–1996) and Yale U ...

, 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.

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