Cornell at Yale

Saturday, October 7, 1944

Yale beat Cornell 16–⁠7. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Yale led the series 5–⁠3.

AwayCornell5–⁠4 in 1944
7
HomeYale7–⁠0–⁠1 in 1944
16

FinalHigh 83°F, low 57°F, 0.03 in. of rainAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The Detroit evening times's story: Cornell Is Upset By Yale, l6 to 7 Pass Gives Losers Their Only Score

    Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 8, 1944, page 1

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    Cornell Is Upset By Yale, l6 to 7 Pass Gives Losers Their Only Score NEW HAVEN Conn oct : UP Yale turned IN an upset l6 10 ,vrciory over Cornell today , vIrtualy eliminating Cornell from hwy League football championship consideration TouchdownS by Roger Banks dale and Dbl Penn, and a salty BY Paul Walker A. he shared Al Dekdebrun in CornclIS end zone trying 10 spot a pass received gave Yale tho victory Yale would have had another three points on field goal 10y Bob Roberts in thc fourth but the play was Cancelled because the Els had only 10 men in play al the time The lone Cornell score was fur niShed by Dekdchun on a -S-yard pass 10 Jack nully on the goal line in the opening period

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

  • ELI'S 17, CORNELL 6Yale, the pre-game under dog, pulls chestnuts out of the fire, as its inexperienced eleven starts to click, for a win over CornellUniversal Newsreel, October 11, 1944. Catalog record at the National Archives

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)

Cornell 64% to win. Yale won as Elo’s underdog.

Yale leads 45–⁠20–⁠2 in 67 meetings, counting the 59 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

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