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Cornell at Yale

Saturday, October 3, 1936

Yale beat Cornell 23–⁠0. It was their third meeting; after it, Yale led the series 3–⁠0.

AwayCornell3–⁠5 in 1936
0
HomeYale7–⁠1 in 1936
23

Finallow 39°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome daily nugget's story: U. S. FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Nome daily nugget, October 5, 1936, page 3 (results column)

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    U. S. FOOTBALL SCORES Willamette Oregon state 13 Oregon 0 U S C 26 Michigan State 21 Michigan 2 U San Francisco 13 San Jose 0 St. Marys 10 Calf. 0 Idaho Washington p Stanford l3 Wash. State IA Duke 21 South Carolina Marquette l2 Wisconsin 6 Virginia 0 Pitt 34 Davidson 0 Navy 19 Wash. Lee 0 Army 28 Williams 2 Princeton 27 Lafayette Pennsylvania 35 Shenandoah 0 Catholic U 81 Vanderbilt 37 Chicago 0 Iowa 2 Northwestern 18 Cornell 0 Yale 23 Providence 6 Holy Cross 2l New York U 0 N. Y. State 60 Miami 20 Case 2 Franklin Marshall 2 Fordham Arkansas IA Tex. Christian Is Louisiana State 6 Texas 6 tie Wash. U ‘ Illinois 13 Amherst 6 Harvard 38 Auburn 0 Tulane 0 tie

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

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)

Yale 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Cornell–Yale game

Yale leads 45–⁠20–⁠2 in 67 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Cornell 38, Yale 25
2025Yale 41, Cornell 24
2024Cornell 47, Yale 23
2023Cornell 23, Yale 21
2022Yale 38, Cornell 14
2021Yale 23, Cornell 17

Around this game

Cornell

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