Amherst at Yale
Wednesday, September 30, 1896 Share
Yale beat Amherst 12–0. It was their 15th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 15–0.
FinalHigh 73°F, low 63°F, 0.58 in. of rain
In the newspapers
The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., October 1, 1896, page 14
Read the text
YALE STILL WEAK. Amherst Beaten, but by q Rather Small Margin. NEW HAVEN Conn.,. Sept 30.-The first home game Of the football season attracted almost every member of the university to the Yale field this afternoon. Amherst was the opposing team and was defeated IL to O. Yale put her strongest team in the field and though she played much better game than against Trinity last Saturday 1t was shown that the weakest part was at center. Line
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 94% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Amherst–Yale gameYale leads 23–0 in 23 meetings, counting the eight since this game.
| 1909 | Yale 34, Amherst 0 | |
| 1906 | Yale 12, Amherst 0 | |
| 1902 | Yale 23, Amherst 0 | |
| 1901 | Yale 6, Amherst 0 | |
| 1900 | Yale 27, Amherst 0 | |
| 1899 | Yale 23, Amherst 0 |
Around this game
Amherst
- Next gameat BowdoinOct. 3, 1896
- SeasonAmherst in 1896
- ProgramAmherst history and records
Yale
- Next gamevs. BrownOct. 7, 1896
- SeasonYale in 1896
- ProgramYale history and records