Amherst vs. Yale

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Yale’s biggest win1888: Yale 70, Amherst 0by 70 points

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

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  1878 · The New York herald, New York, Nov 17, 1878

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  1888 · Morning journal and courier, Connecticut, Oct 20, 1888

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  1889 · New-York tribune, New York, Oct 20, 1889

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  1891 · Pittsburg dispatch, Pittsburg [Pa.], Nov 12, 1891

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  1893 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 19, 1893

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Amherst vs. Dartmouth25 meetings, Amherst 3–⁠19–⁠3
• Amherst vs. Harvard25 meetings, Amherst 1–⁠24
• Amherst vs. Massachusetts24 meetings, Amherst 21–⁠2–⁠1
• Amherst vs. Williams24 meetings, Amherst 8–⁠12–⁠4
• Yale vs. Princeton126 meetings, Yale 71–⁠45–⁠10
• Yale vs. Harvard120 meetings, Yale 62–⁠50–⁠8
• Yale vs. Brown108 meetings, Yale 79–⁠25–⁠4
• Yale vs. Dartmouth88 meetings, Yale 50–⁠33–⁠5