Lafayette at Yale

Saturday, November 16, 1935

Yale beat Lafayette 55–⁠0. It was their third meeting; after it, Yale led the series 3–⁠0.

AwayLafayette0–⁠3 in 1935
0
HomeYale6–⁠3 in 1935
55

FinalHigh 42°F, low 36°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: YALE USES ENTIRE SQUAD IN $50 WIN Lafayette Is Last Set-Up for EIis-Rankin and Curtin GaIIop.

    Evening star, November 17, 1935, page 34

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    YALE USES ENTIRE SQUAD IN $50 WIN Lafayette Is Last Set-Up for EIis-Rankin and Curtin GaIIop. N YEW HAVEN. Conn, Novembe, 16-The Yale foot ball teams “ breathing SPELL came to g a close today as the Bulldogs entire squad routed Lafayette. SIS to 0 Bernie Rankin and Tom Curtin each scored two touchdowns to lead the Yale attack. A gathering of 5000. the smallest crowd to watch a varsity game in the Blues huge saucer” yelled between shivers as the sons of Ell dashed up and down the gridiron recklessly to score eight times to pile up Yale’s heaviest score of the season. The Blue, held Scoreless during q first period featured by fumbles and intercepted passes, turned on the power with the start of the second period and quickly turned the contest into rout

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 18, 1935, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: College of Puget Sound 12; Con- zaga 50 College of Pacific 0; California 39. Oregon State 13; Idaho 0. Montana 0; Stanford g. Oregon 6; University of Portland 0. Louisiana State IS; Georgia o. Washington State 10; Southern California 20 Iowas6; Purdue 12. Indiana 24; Chicago 0. Wisconsin 13; Northwestern 32. Georgia Tech T; Alabama 38. Texas Christian 28; University of Texas 0. Kentucky 13; Tulane 20. Vanderbilt 13; Tennessee T. Texas A & M 10; Rice IT. Southern Methodist IT; Arkansas 6. Michigan State 27; Loyola O. Cornell 6; Dartmouth fl. Fordham 45; Muhlenberg 0. Minnesota 40; Michigan 0. Nebraska 0; Pittsburgh 6. Lehigh 0; Princeton 27. Notre Dame 6; Army 6. Ohio 6; Illinois 0. Temple 26; Marquette 6. Colgate 27; Syracuse 0. Yale 55; Lafayette 0. Harvard fl; New Hampshire o. Special Delivery t. Doug.as Dali.

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 77% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 5–⁠3 in eight meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
2012Lafayette 20, Yale 10
2011Lafayette 28, Yale 19
2009Lafayette 31, Yale 14
2006Yale 37, Lafayette 34
1952Yale 47, Lafayette 0
1935Yale 55, Lafayette 0

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