Princeton at Yale
Saturday, November 15, 1952 Share
No. 16 Princeton beat Yale 27–21. It was their 75th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 37–28–10.
FinalHigh 58°F, low 35°F, 0.32 in. of rainAttendance 62,000
In the newspapers
Evening star, November 16, 1952, page 68
Read the text
Princeton 0utscores Yale, 27–21, 10 Keep lis Big Three Title NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 15.- Bob Unger, ably assisted by Homer Smith, passed and ran Princeton to a wild and woolly 27–21 football victory over Yale today to give the Tigers their sixth consecutive Big Three championship. A crowd of $4,000, the biggest since 1948, sat through a steady
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
- FOOTBALLPrinceton takes the Big Three Ivy title, defeating Yale, 27-21
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)
Princeton 64% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Princeton–Yale gameYale leads 71–45–10 in 126 meetings, counting the 51 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
Princeton
- Next gamevs. DartmouthNov. 22, 1952
- SeasonPrinceton in 1952
- ProgramPrinceton history and records
Yale
- Next gameat HarvardNov. 22, 1952
- SeasonYale in 1952
- ProgramYale history and records