Army at Yale

Saturday, October 26, 1935

Army beat Yale 14–⁠8. It was their 35th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 18–⁠9–⁠8.

AwayArmy6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1935
14
HomeYale6–⁠3 in 1935
8

FinalHigh 71°F, low 37°F

In the newspapers

  • The 's story: CADETS Whip YALE IA TO 8 Army Capitalizes On Ellis Kicking Mistakes To Win Contest

    , October 27, 1935

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    CADETS Whip YALE IA TO 8 Army Capitalizes On Ellis Kicking Mistakes To Win Contest NEW HAVEN. Conn. Oct. % Rl-Yale, handicapped by its own kicking mistakes at The outset, was tumbled from the unbeaten ranks Saturday by Army. The Cadets from West Point emerged with a IA 70 8 triumph, their fourth IN a row over the Ellis and fourth successive victory Of the 1865 campaign. The Soldiers capitalized two first half scoring opportunities with an attack featuring the brilliant Charles Monk Meyer. and then successfully stood off Yales Sensational ccunter-offensive In the last half. Meyer was the outstanding indiyidual star. The fleet Army half back scored the first touchdown on a Six-yard end run In the first period and passed to Russ Janzan. substituting for Captain Bill Shuler, for the second tally Ia the closing moments Of the second period. Besides taking the play away from Yale’S brilliant passing comDlnation OF Jerry Roscoe and Larry Kelley. which accounted for Yale’s touchdown III the second period, Meyer was a standout on the detense. He broke up two Eli advances In the last half by intercepting passes deep tn Army territory. One resulted In q safety and two points for Yale as Meyer tumbled back In 10 his own end zone.

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 51% to win. Army won as Elo’s underdog.

Yale leads 22–⁠16–⁠8 in 46 meetings, counting the 11 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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