Bates vs. Yale
Bates and Yale first met in 1899 and have played 7 times; Yale leads the series 6–0–1. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Yale 6–0. Share
- Bates wins
- 0
- Yale wins
- 6
- Ties
- 1
- First meeting
- 1899
- Longest streak
- 5 Yale
- Current streak
- 1 Yale
- Last 10 meetings
- Yale 6–0
- Most recent
- 1951
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1900s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 0–0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 31.9 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Yale
- 6–0–1 Yale’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 6
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Yale’s biggest win1900: Yale 50, Bates 0by 50 points
Both programs through the years
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.
From the newspapers
1899 · The Portland daily press, Portland, Me., Oct 9, 1899
1900 · The times, Washington [D.C.], Oct 11, 1900
1921 · The New York herald, New York, Sep 25, 1921
1922 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Sep 25, 1922
1932 · The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, Oct 3, 1932
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
| Sep 22, 1951 | Yale 48, Bates 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 1, 1932 | Yale 0, Bates 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 23, 1922 | Yale 48, Bates 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 24, 1921 | Yale 28, Bates 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 22, 1901 | Yale 21, Bates 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 10, 1900 | Yale 50, Bates 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 7, 1899 | Yale 28, Bates 0 | at Yale |
Every game is listed as played on the field.