Yale at Princeton
Saturday, November 16, 1963 Share
Princeton beat Yale 27–7. It was their 86th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 42–34–10.
FinalHigh 57°F, low 33°FAttendance 42,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1963, page 19 (results column)
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piled the only major surprises. UCLA, winner Of only one previous game, dealt Washing ton a stunning 40 defeat. dimming the Huskies’ hopes to play in the Rose Bowl. Half back Byron Nelson scored both UCLA touchdowns. Wake Forest came through with a 20–19 victory over South Carolina on Brian Piccolo s conversion and thus ended the longest major losing streak at 10 games. Kentucky upset Bay lor, 1877. Mississippi, ranked No. 3 in the Nation, whipped Tennessee 200; Michigan State, No. 4, took Notre Dame, 1871; Okla homa, No. S, beat Misso uri, 1873; Pitt, No. 6, drubbed Army, $50; Alabama, No. Z, defeated Georgia Tech, 27–11; Illinois, No. 8, outfought Wis consin, 17–7; Auburn. No. 8, downed Georgia, 14–0, and Ne braska, No. 10. edged Okla homa State, 20–16. LaSt-SecOnd Victory In some Of the other major games, Oregon pulled out a 1922 victory over Indiana in the last IL seconds; Princeton thumped Yale, 27–7; Dart mouth edged Cornell, 1877; Harvard downed Brown, 24–12; Northwestern whipped Ohio State, 1913; Purdue nipped Minnesota, 1911; Michigan and Iowa tied, 21–2l. Penn State took Holy Cross 2S-14; Southern Methodist defeated Arkansas. lat; Texas AIM bested Rice, 1876; Wash ington State beat Stanford
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)
Princeton 66% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Yale–Princeton gameYale leads 71–45–10 in 126 meetings, counting the 40 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. 30, 1963
- SeasonYale in 1963
- ProgramYale history and records
Princeton
- Next gamevs. DartmouthNov. 30, 1963
- SeasonPrinceton in 1963
- ProgramPrinceton history and records

