Brown at Yale

Saturday, November 9, 1946

Yale beat Brown 49–⁠0. It was their 51st meeting; after it, Yale led the series 39–⁠9–⁠3.

AwayBrown3–⁠5–⁠1 in 1946
0
HomeYale7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1946
49

FinalHigh 57°F, low 37°FAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, November 12, 1946, page 16 (results column)

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    boast q 5–⁠1 record and walloped Temple, $50. in their last outing. Tennessee, beaten only by Wake Forest and conquerors of such DOW ers as Duke. Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, will face rugged foe In the big Eagles Of Boston College. Both teams have one thing In common their only defeats being to Wake Forest. The Deacons whipped Boston College, 1876, and Tennessee, 1876. Tennessee took a bad physical beating while edging Ole Miss 1914 Saturday and will have the disadvantage OF playing at Boston. Syracuse Can Clinch Title. Syracuse, rated at the bottom of Upper New York’s big Three” can ,clinch the triangular title by stop ping Colgate at Syracuse. The Orange kicked over the dope bucket In halting Cornell 14–⁠7 Saturday and since the Big Red already had defeated Colgate, Syracuse can gain q clear claim to the crown. Ivy League games send Princeton to Yale, Brown to Harvard and Dartmouth to Cornell. Harvard Is only two steps away from the Ivy championship with 20 slate and should maintain its batting average against the Rhode Islanders, who were massacred 49–⁠0 by Yale. Harward defeated Dartmouth, the loops cellar club, 2l-v. After Brown the Crimson WINDS up its campaign against Yale. The Ellis are heavily favored over Princeton, which seems to have shot its bolt against Penn. Virginia bat tered the Tigers, 20–⁠6, Saturday. Cornell should rebound from its Syracuse licking to beat Dartmouth. The Big Red is in the running for the league championship with two wins, no losses and one tie. Columbia Faces Lafayette. / Columbia’s Lions, licking the wounds Of their pasting from Penn entertains Lafayette. Another New York City contest pairs Fordham and New York U This traditional tilt in prewar years was the big towns No. 2 game Sec ond only to the Notre Dame Army affair-but both schools have deemphasized football and their rec ords show it. | Other games over the week end include Bucknell at Temple, Wash ington College at Delaware, Mora Wan at Muhlenberg, williams al Amherst, Georgetown at Scranton, Boston q. at Coast Guard Academy Trinity at Wesleyan, Rutgers al Lehigh and st. Bonaventure al Kings Point.

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 56% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 79–⁠25–⁠4 in 108 meetings, counting the 57 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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