Cornell at Yale
Saturday, October 7, 1944 Share
Yale beat Cornell 16–7. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Yale led the series 5–3.
FinalHigh 83°F, low 57°F, 0.03 in. of rainAttendance 25,000
In the newspapers

Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 8, 1944, page 1
Read the text
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 Cornell
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.
The series
Every Cornell–Yale gameYale leads 45–20–2 in 67 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.
| 2026 | Cornell 38, Yale 25 | |
| 2025 | Yale 41, Cornell 24 | |
| 2024 | Cornell 47, Yale 23 | |
| 2023 | Cornell 23, Yale 21 | |
| 2022 | Yale 38, Cornell 14 | |
| 2021 | Yale 23, Cornell 17 |
Around this game
Cornell
- Next gamevs. ColgateOct. 14, 1944
- SeasonCornell in 1944
- ProgramCornell history and records
Yale
- Next gamevs. ColumbiaOct. 14, 1944
- SeasonYale in 1944
- ProgramYale history and records

