Yale at Cornell

Saturday, November 9, 1889

Yale beat Cornell 70–⁠0. It was their second meeting; after it, Yale led the series 2–⁠0.

AwayYale16–⁠1 in 1889
70
HomeCornell7–⁠2 in 1889
0

FinalAttendance 2,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Springdale news's story

    The Springdale news, Arkansas, November 15, 1889, page 2

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    TnE Yale-Cornell football game. on the 9th, resulted in favor of Yale, 70 to 0. Harris, of Cornell, was badly injured, and one Yale man was carried off the field also seriously hurt. TuE body of State Treasurer Vim. B. Hart of Pennsylvania laid in state in the Capitol at Harrisburg, from 1 q. m. to D. m., on the 12th, after which the funeral cortege proceeded to Harris burg Cemetery where the interment took place with military honors. MATTHEW SULLIVAN, linemaH cm- ployed by Brooklyn telephone com pany.while walking on the tracks of tho Union Elevated railroad on the 9th, was struck by train and precipitated to the street His skull was crushed by the fall, resulting in instant death. ROBERT BONNER has purchased the great three-year-old Sunoi of Senator Stanford, of California, at price which the latter declares is the greatest ever paid for horse in this country. EX-PREsIDENr CLEVELAND assisted in laying the cornerstone of the Thomas Jefferson Clubs new building in Boer- um Place, Brooklyn, on the 18th. The clubhouse is to be the local head quarters of the Democracy. Two HUNDRED weavers at the Berk- shire Manufacturing Company’s mills at Frankford, Pa, struck, on the 11th, be cause of notice of reduction in wages MR. PORTAL, British agent at Zanzi- bar, has received letter from Henry NJ. Stanley wherein the explorer states that he hopes to reach Zanzibar about the middle of January. PRESIDENT HARRISON, on the 11th, signed and issued the proclamation de- claring the Territory of Washington to be State of the Union. TIE Catholic Congress in Baltimore began it’s sessions on the 11th. The delegates to the number of about 1,200 assisted at solemn pontifcal mass in the morning celebrated by Archbishop Corrigan of New York. TIE Broadway Railroad Company of New York, from which the city now re- ceives about S10 GOO per annum Tn rent als, has offered to guarantee that the payments on this account shall not be less than $f50, GOO per annum if the city will allow 1t to use the cable system in stead of horses as motive power. TIE schooner Mary Jane Lee, from Rockland for New York, lime-laden, ar rived at Booth Bay, Me, on the 10th, with her cargo on fire NICE-ADMiRAL kRANTz has finally withdrawn from the French Ministry of Marine and NJ. Barbey, Senator for the Department of the Tarn, has been ap- pointed to succeed him. CAPTAIN NATHANIEL GREENLEAF, master and owner of the halibat-fshing schooner Lizzie !. Greenleaf, of Glou- eester. Mass, has made complaint to tho State Departments in which he says that on April 25 last an officer of the British cutter stationed at Fortune Bay. N F.. him to give bonds te take out q new modus yiyendi license before buying bait, although his old license had two months to run. X SESSION of the Legislature of Mon tana has been called for the 23d by Governor Toole. DISPATCHES from South Africa report the prevalence of famine as the result of drought throughout the Transyaal. The situation at Johannesburg is critical. and breadstufrs are selling at famine prices. TIE number of persons examined for the naval service during the past year was 10, ooo and of this number 3.914, or more than one-third, were rejected for physical disqualitications. The num- bcr rejected for color-bindness was 1.300, q ratio of 133 in thousand.

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

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Our ratings (scores only)

Yale 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 45–⁠20–⁠2 in 67 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Cornell 38, Yale 25
2025Yale 41, Cornell 24
2024Cornell 47, Yale 23
2023Cornell 23, Yale 21
2022Yale 38, Cornell 14
2021Yale 23, Cornell 17

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