Standings
| Overall | Conference | Points Per Game | SRS | Polls | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | W | L | T | Pct | W | L | T | Pct | Off | Def | SRS | SOS | AP Pre | AP High | AP Rank | Notes |
| Yale | 8 | 1 | 0 | .889 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 27.3 | 10.8 | 5.64 | -9.69 | 19 | 19 | ||
| Princeton | 7 | 2 | 0 | .778 | 5 | 2 | 0 | .714 | 26.3 | 15.0 | -1.13 | -9.69 | 20 | |||
| Dartmouth | 5 | 3 | 1 | .611 | 4 | 3 | 0 | .571 | 13.6 | 9.9 | -4.81 | -8.47 | ||||
| Pennsylvania | 4 | 5 | 0 | .444 | 4 | 3 | 0 | .571 | 10.7 | 24.0 | -10.99 | -3.54 | ||||
| Brown | 5 | 4 | 0 | .556 | 3 | 4 | 0 | .429 | 13.8 | 10.4 | -5.16 | -8.49 | ||||
| Columbia | 3 | 6 | 0 | .333 | 2 | 5 | 0 | .286 | 10.4 | 26.3 | -16.58 | -6.69 | ||||
| Harvard | 2 | 6 | 0 | .250 | 2 | 5 | 0 | .286 | 19.1 | 24.9 | -13.56 | -7.93 | ||||
| Cornell | 1 | 8 | 0 | .111 | 1 | 6 | 0 | .143 | 11.1 | 23.2 | -16.47 | -4.80 | ||||
1956 Conference Leaders