Army at Yale

Saturday, October 27, 1934

Army beat Yale 20–⁠12. It was their 34th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 18–⁠8–⁠8.

AwayArmy7–⁠3 in 1934
20
HomeYale5–⁠3 in 1934
12

FinalHigh 51°F, low 39°F, 0.02 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Indianapolis times's story: START OF AIR DERBY, SHOWN IN TIMES REEL Army'S Victory Over Yale Also Pictured in Universal Film.

    The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], November 2, 1934, page 1

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    START OF AIR DERBY, SHOWN IN TIMES REEL Army’S Victory Over Yale Also Pictured in Universal Film. The first actual pictures of the thrilling start of the England to Australia air speed derby are to be seen in the current issue of The In dianapolis Times Universal News reel. Graham McNamee, noted radio announcer and the screens talk ing reporter. wildly describes this and other important events in the reel. Army’s victory over Yale, 90 to u. in their annual encounter at New Haven, Conn, also is to be seen in the current reel The cadets stage their famous drill before the game Fighting bravely, the Ellis go down to defeat at the hands Of a superior football machine. Other important events include the arrival of King Prajadipok of Siam on the French Riviera on his way to England, where he threat ems to abdicate following a dispute with the SiameSe parliament, the amazing performance of an English robot who answers questions before the public of New York City; enployes of the A. g. P. meeting at Cleveland, after their dismissal as the result of a labor dispute; the application of liquid lacquer and brightly-colored powder to hair dressing at Hollywood, Cal. and the dedication of the new 100000 department of justice building at Washington.

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: ILLINOIS AND ARMY BATTLE ON SATURDAY

    Imperial Valley press, California, October 29, 1934, page 3

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    ILLINOIS AND ARMY BATTLE ON SATURDAY NEW YORK, Oct. 29. U.P)-Army and Illinois, championship contenders of the east and midwest, will risk their perfect records in a grand intersectional duel at Cham paign Saturday as the feature of November s initial football program. 1t is the fourth meeting between the Cadets and Bob Zuppke IS Illi,i. The latter, who were just able to squeeze through to ore-point vic tories over Ohio State and Michigan, will try to even the series count with the soldiers at two vic tories each. Lieut.. Gar Davidson future generals came through their first major test last week with an i’m pressive 20–⁠12 triumph over Yale. The rest of the weekend program will be devoted largely to regional combat-the same brand of warfare which last week saw seven hitherto undefeated major selevens shunted out of the cham pionship parade: Holy Cross, Penn State, Iowa State, Detroit, Wander bilt, Duke and Utah.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: TBALL As1REsUL.T!!s ]!

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 29, 1934, page 5 (results column)

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    TBALL As1REsUL.T!!s ]! The following are final scores of prominent football games played last Saturday afternoon: California T; Washington 13. Oregon State 0; Washington State 31. UCLA 49; California Aggies o. Southern California 0; Stanford 16. Santa Clara 19; Fresno State 0. Oregon 8; Utah T. Idaho 13; Montana 6. Georgia Tech 12; Tulane 20. Texas g; Rice 20. Navy IT; Pennsylvania 0. Army 20; Yale 12 Illinois T; Michigan 6. Purdue 20; Carnegie Tech 0. Cornell 0; Princeton 45. Dartmouth 10; Harvard o. Penn State T; Columbia IA. Georgetown 0; New York Univer- sity 0. Southern Methodist 26; Fordham IA. Ohio State 28; Northwestern 6. Wisconsin O; Notre Dame 19. Minnesota 48; Iowa 12. Missouri 6; Chicago 19. Oklahoma ‘; Kansas ‘. Iowa State 6; Nebraska T. Texas A. and M. 10; Baylors ‘. Duke 6; Tennessee IA. Georgia 6; Alabama 26. SUNDAY GAME Gonzaga Is; Columbia University of Portland 0.

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.

On the newsreel

  • ARMY GRIDMEN DEFEAT YALE IN ANNUAL BATTLE IN BOWLSmashing through a valiant Eli eleven in the Military Academy’s first major contest of the season, the Cadets triumph, 20 to 12, before 45,000 cheering spectatorsUniversal Newsreel, October 29, 1934. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Army 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 22–⁠16–⁠8 in 46 meetings, counting the 12 since this game.

Recent meetings
2014Yale 49, Army 43
1996Army 39, Yale 13
1988Army 33, Yale 18
1986Army 41, Yale 24
1985Army 59, Yale 16
1955Yale 14, Army 12

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