Yale at Brown

Saturday, October 24, 1925

Yale beat Brown 20–⁠7. It was their 31st meeting; after it, Yale led the series 26–⁠3–⁠2.

AwayYale5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1925
20
HomeBrown5–⁠4–⁠1 in 1925
7

FinalHigh 55°F, low 39°F

In the newspapers

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story: Mighty Yale Team Wins from Brown by Decisive Score 2O-7

    Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., October 26, 1925, page 1

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    Mighty Yale Team Wins from Brown by Decisive Score 2O-7 Providence, Oct. 24-Yale played streaky article of football today IN oyerpowering Brown. 20 to z. informaily opening Aldrich Field before 3 brilliant collegiate crowd OF 25,ooo. The Bulldog drove three touchdowns across the goal line of the Brown Rear by sheer rushing penetration and threw away three more which were imminent and were lost by exasperating fumbling. Keefer’s short punt with less than two minutes remaining of the second period gave old Eli his opportunity; Taking the ball at Browns 80 yard mark. Larry Noble heaved a pass to Runnell for Is yards. Noble then circled left wing to Browns 10 YARD mark and on the next play NOBLE closed the campaign by sauirming outside left end for what proved the final touchdown. Aliens goal round ed Yalc’s score to 20 against Brown seven just before time expired. Yale opened the third period py covering 60 yards in another march to the Brown citadel. Kline’s Tor ward pass to Bunnell downed the ball only IL yards from the Brown goal. The summary;

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 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 79–⁠25–⁠4 in 108 meetings, counting the 77 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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