Brown at Yale

Wednesday, October 4, 1893

Yale beat Brown 18–⁠0. It was their second meeting; after it, Yale led the series 2–⁠0.

AwayBrown6–⁠3 in 1893
0
HomeYale10–⁠1 in 1893
18

FinalHigh 60°F, low 52°F

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: BOWLING SCORE. YALE DEFEATS BROWN AT FOOTBALL.

    New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 5, 1893, page 1

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    BOWLING SCORE. YALE DEFEATS BROWN AT FOOTBALL. New.IIavca Conn, Oct. 4.-Yac opened the football season here today by defeating the strong Bf1wa in a wellplayed game Yale played VITA mach snap and scored the first touchdown thrrc minutes after pry began. Yae scor,-l eight points IN the first half touchdowns by Armstrong and Eaton In the second half ArmstIsng and Hart carried the hall over and Armstrong kicked goal making total OF eighteen posnt. 10 nothing For Yale both backs aud ends IN we’ll ~ did the centre The tackles. however were the wak spots. For Brown CAPTAIN Hopkins mode nearly ar the gains: Brown never cane scoring than Yaes 25yafd line. Yale substituted five nov ue.i IN the second half.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Yale 92% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 79–⁠25–⁠4 in 108 meetings, counting the 106 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Yale 34, Brown 22
2024Yale 56, Brown 34
2023Yale 36, Brown 17
2022Yale 69, Brown 17
2021Yale 63, Brown 38
2019Yale 59, Brown 35

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