Brown at Yale

Saturday, October 31, 1942

Yale beat Brown 27–⁠0. It was their 47th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 37–⁠7–⁠3.

AwayBrown4–⁠4 in 1942
0
HomeYale5–⁠3 in 1942
27

FinalHigh 70°F, low 42°F

In the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: ONLY four TEAMS WITHIN NATIONS UNBEATEN CLASS

    Imperial Valley press, California, November 2, 1942, page 4 (results column)

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    ONLY four TEAMS WITHIN NATIONS UNBEATEN CLASS NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-UP0- Only four teams Boston college, Georgia, Georgia Tech and Cali fornia -flight-remained in the ranks of the country’s undefeated and united college football teams today as the season headed into the home stretch. Wisconsin, which upset favored Ohio State By a 1T count, has its record marred only by a tie with Notre Dame. Six clubs which previously had perfect records-Alabama Detroit, Ohio State, TC.U., Army and Syracuse-all were knocked off while once-tied Penn State was defeated for the first time. Detroit lost to Marquette, 100 yesterday Georgias Bulldogs gained the major share of week -end glory when they rallied to thump Ala bamas Crimson Tide, 21–⁠10. Led by All-American frankie Sinkwich, Georgia poured on all it’s points in the last period to win. Georgia Tech, the South’s other undefeated and united eleven, also came from behind to smash Dukes Blue Devils, 26–⁠7 Georgia took the Southeastern Conference lead with four victories following its triumph over the Tide while in other circuit battles Mississippi State edged past Auburn, 60: Tennessee trimmed L.S.U., 26–⁠0, and Tulane shaded Wander bilt, 1921. North Carolina State upset favored North Carolina, 21–⁠14, and Wake Forest defeated Glenn son. 1876. The Horned Frogs of T.C.U., suffered their first setback when they dropped a 10–⁠7 decision that push ed the Baylor Bears into the Southwest Conference lead with Texas. The Longhorns clipped SM.U., 21–⁠7, as the Texas Aggies whipped Arkansas with the ease of old, 41–⁠0. Wisconsin took over the West ern Conference lead on the strength of its victory over the Buckeyes, as Iowa defeated Purdue, 1877, Michigan mauled Il linois, 28–⁠14, and Minnesota stop ped Northwestern, 1877. Navy gave Notre Dam a stiff fight before drop ping a 80 decision, while Great Lakes hammered Missouri’s favored forces, ITO, and Iowa pre-flight halted Indiana, 26–⁠6. Nebraska walked out front in the Big Six race with a 14–⁠7 triumph over Kan sas and Oklahoma toppled Iowa State, AT. Il Boston college dominated the | East as it trounced a strong defenSive Georgetown team, 40 Pennsylvania took command in the Ivy League as it handed Army its first setback, whaling the Ca diets, 1910, and Yale beat Brown, 27–⁠0. Harvard toppled favored Princeton, 1914, and Columbia nosed out Cornell, 14–⁠13.

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)

Brown 67% to win. Yale pulled the upset.

Yale leads 79–⁠25–⁠4 in 108 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Yale 34, Brown 22
2024Yale 56, Brown 34
2023Yale 36, Brown 17
2022Yale 69, Brown 17
2021Yale 63, Brown 38
2019Yale 59, Brown 35

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