Springfield at Yale
Saturday, October 25, 1947 Share
Yale beat Springfield 49–0. It was their 11th meeting; Yale leads the series 11–0.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 20°FAttendance 15,000
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 27, 1947, page 3 (results column)
Read the text
FOOTBALL q SCORES Final scores of leading football games played during the week end are as follows: Montana State Is: Washington State 12 Stanford c; Washington %. Portland c; oregon State 46. San Francisco T; oregon 34. Southern Methodist T; UCLA 0 use 39; California IA. U of Nevada 2l; Tulane 13. Montana State 34; Idaho State College 22 Utah State 12; Brig Young 27 Utah 26; Wyoming T. Texas Tech. 36; Denver ‘. Arkansas 19 Mississippi IA Arizona State ‘, Wichita U. 55 Vermont 6; New Hampshire 28. Geneva 40; Carnegie Tech 12 w Virginia 8; Penn State 21 Dartmouth IA; Havard 13. Duke 13; Wake Forest 6. Temple 21; Bueknell 0. Alabama IT; Georfie T. Citadel 0; Georgia Tech 38. Iowa 0: Notre Dame 2l. Nebraska IA; Kansas State ‘. Marquette 12; Wisconsin 35 Missouri 26; Iowa State T. Illinois T. Purdue IA. Indiana 6; Northwestern ‘. Xavier 25; Cincinnati 27. Davidson 0; Washington Lee 32 Fordham 12; Kings Point 0. Holy Cross 26; Syracuse O. Kentucky T; Michigan State 6. Cornell 28; Princeton 21. Ohio State 0; Pitt l2. Minnesota 6; Michigan 13. Navy Q; Penn 2l. Brown 13; Colgate B (tie). Springfield 0; Yale 49. North Texas State 27, Sam Hous- ton 0. Whitman T; Univ. British Colum- bia G. William and Mary AT; Boston University 13.~ Vanderbilt 13; Louisiana s. 19 New Mexico 12; Arizona p.
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.
Photos from the game

Football game, Yale vs. SpringfieldPhoto: Springfield College Archives and Special Collections, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Digital Public Library of America 
Football game, Yale vs. SpringfieldPhoto: Springfield College Archives and Special Collections, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Digital Public Library of America 
Springfield “S” performed during football gamePhoto: Springfield College Archives and Special Collections, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Digital Public Library of America 
Football game, Yale vs. SpringfieldPhoto: Springfield College Archives and Special Collections, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Digital Public Library of America 
Football game, Yale vs. SpringfieldPhoto: Springfield College Archives and Special Collections, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Digital Public Library of America
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Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Yale 90% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Springfield–Yale gameYale leads 11–0 in 11 meetings.
| 1947 | Yale 49, Springfield 0 | |
| 1919 | Yale 20, Springfield 0 | |
| 1915 | Yale 19, Springfield 0 | |
| 1909 | Yale 36, Springfield 0 | |
| 1907 | Yale 18, Springfield 0 | |
| 1906 | Yale 12, Springfield 0 |
Around this game
Springfield
- Next gamevs. New York UniversityOct. 2, 1948
- SeasonSpringfield in 1947
- ProgramSpringfield history and records
Yale
- Next gamevs. DartmouthNov. 1, 1947
- SeasonYale in 1947
- ProgramYale history and records
