2015 Yale Bulldogs football team 2015 Yale Bulldogs football team The 2015 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. This season marked the Bulldogs's 143rd overall season and the team played its home games at Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut. They were led by fourth year head coach Tony Reno. They were a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 6–4, 3–4 in Ivy League play to finish in a tie for fourth place. The 2014 Yale Bulldogs finished the regular season 8-2, 5-2 Ivy, with their two losses to Dartmouth and Harvard.
Public Ivy Public Ivy "Public Ivy" is a term coined by Richard Moll in his 1985 book "Public Ivies: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities" to refer to U.S. universities that are claimed to provide an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public university price. Public Ivies are considered, according to "The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education", to be capable of "successfully competing with the Ivy League schools in academic rigor … attracting superstar faculty and in competing for the best and brightest students of all races." Moll, who earned his Master of Divinity degree from Yale