Yale at Princeton
Saturday, November 17, 1951 Share
No. 6 Princeton beat Yale 27–0. It was their 74th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 37–27–10.
FinalHigh 59°F, low 37°FAttendance 45,000
In the newspapers
Evening star, District of Columbia, November 18, 1951, page 58
Read the text
Kozmoier, Tigers Smash Marks Routing OutcIossed Yale, 20 PRINCETON, N. j.. Nov. IT. Dick Kazmaier had one of the biggest days of his brilliant foot ball career today as he led Prince toms unbeaten Tigers to a record smashing. 27–0 victory over their Oldest rival, Yale. KaZmaier engineered every touchdown and gained a total of 237 yards by running and passing He wiped out the Eastern record for ground-gaining in one season and gave Princeton the Big Three championship for the fifth straight year, feat no team had accomplished since Yale and Princeton first met in 1873. The victory was Princeton’s 21st in succession over a three-year stretch. adding one more triumph to string of record length. Kazmaier scored only one touchdown himself-on a nine yard end run. But his passes accounted for the other three. He tossed twice to End Len Lyons and once to Frank McPhee, stellar defensive end who came in just to catch a pass. Today’s 1872 yards by rushing and los by passing gave Kazmaier season total of 1,707 yards. This surpassed the Eastern mark Of ,693 yards set by Ted Marchi-
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
- PRINCETON-YALEAt Princeton, N.J., Dick Kazmaier plays his last P-Y game, making it a one-man show. With three touchdown passes tossed, and one T.D. scored on the ground, "Kaz" winds up brilliant year on gridiron
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Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Princeton 86% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Yale–Princeton gameYale leads 71–45–10 in 126 meetings, counting the 52 since this game.
| 2025 | Yale 13, Princeton 10 | |
| 2024 | Yale 42, Princeton 28 | |
| 2023 | Yale 36, Princeton 28 | |
| 2022 | Yale 24, Princeton 20 | |
| 2021 | Princeton 35, Yale 20 | |
| 2019 | Yale 51, Princeton 14 |
Around this game
Yale
- Next gamevs. HarvardNov. 24, 1951
- SeasonYale in 1951
- ProgramYale history and records
Princeton
- Next gamevs. DartmouthNov. 24, 1951
- SeasonPrinceton in 1951
- ProgramPrinceton history and records