UConn at Yale
Saturday, September 27, 1958 Share
Yale beat UConn 8–6. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 10–0.
FinalHigh 72°F, low 51°F, 1.19 in. of rainAttendance 22,158
In the newspapers

Evening star, September 28, 1958, page 1 (results column)
Read the text
SPORTS ROUNDUP Terps and Navy Win; Glenn Beats Round Table Maryland’s football team, rebounding from its disastrous debut, upset favored North Carolina State yesterday, 21–6 In another surprise, Virginia beat Duke, 1912. Navy won its opener over William g. Mary 14–0. Army trounced South Carolina, 45–8; Notre Dame took Indiana, 1870, and Ohio State got a scare before edging Southern Methodist, 1920. The Ivy League produced two up sets, Rutgers over Princeton, 28–0, and Buffalo over Harvard, 6–3. while Yale just did nip Connecticut, 8–6. Racing Round Table failed for the third consecutive time in his bid to become the worlds rich est horse as Clem won the Woodward Stakes. It was Clem’s third victory in a row over Round Table, who coulc do no better than fifth yesterday. Baseball Ted Williams took a three point lead over Boston Team. mate Pete Runnels in tht American Leagues sizzling bat ting race. Williams got thret hits in four attempts as Bostor beat Washington to boost hi average to .327, while Runnels despite a home run, triple ant single, had three-for-six for ( .324 average. The champion ship will be decided in the flna game at Griffith Stadium today “Details in Sports SectiOn).
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 88% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every UConn–Yale gameYale leads 30–4 in 34 meetings, counting the 24 since this game.
| 2021 | UConn 21, Yale 15 | |
| 1981 | Yale 27, UConn 18 | |
| 1980 | Yale 20, UConn 10 | |
| 1979 | Yale 24, UConn 17 | |
| 1978 | Yale 21, UConn 7 | |
| 1977 | Yale 23, UConn 12 |
Around this game
UConn
- Next gamevs. Boston UniversityNov. 22, 1958
- SeasonUConn in 1958
- ProgramUConn history and records
Yale
- Next gameat BrownOct. 4, 1958
- SeasonYale in 1958
- ProgramYale history and records

