Brown at Yale
Saturday, November 11, 1939 Share
Brown and Yale tied 14–14. It was their 44th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 36–5–3.
FinalAttendance 32,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 12, 1939, page 28 (results column)
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Footballs Fovorites Enjoy No Armistice Cornell, Texas Aes Are Lucky in Missing Upset Parade west title by walloping Texas Longhorns, 300. In the East, Penn State, Pitt and Harvard all overturned bet ting favorites. Pitt stopped Car negie Tech, 60; Penn State shocked the experts with a 100 decision over Penn, and Harvard swarmed all over Army, 1910. A late pass by Jack Naylor to Gus de Augustinis earned Column bia a 1913 decision over Navy, and Yale and Brown played to a 14–14 draw. Rutgers and Georgetown each remained unbeaten. the former winning the Middle Three title by defeating Lafayette, 1876, while Georgetown swamped Mary land, 300. Wesleyan defeated Williams, 1870, and won the Little Three crown. Also rolling along the undefeated trail, Southern CALIFORNIA; Trojans buried Stanford under . $50 count. Denver won from Colorado State, 1876, in the leading Noun. tain States Conference game.
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 60% to win.
The series
Every Brown–Yale gameYale leads 79–25–4 in 108 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.
| 2025 | Yale 34, Brown 22 | |
| 2024 | Yale 56, Brown 34 | |
| 2023 | Yale 36, Brown 17 | |
| 2022 | Yale 69, Brown 17 | |
| 2021 | Yale 63, Brown 38 | |
| 2019 | Yale 59, Brown 35 |
Around this game
Brown
- Next gamevs. UConnNov. 18, 1939
- SeasonBrown in 1939
- ProgramBrown history and records
Yale
- Next gamevs. PrincetonNov. 18, 1939
- SeasonYale in 1939
- ProgramYale history and records

