Bowdoin vs. Yale

Bowdoin and Yale first met in 1900 and have played 3 times; Yale leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Yale 3–⁠0, and Yale has won the last 3.

Bowdoin wins
0
Yale wins
3
Ties
0
First meeting
1900
Longest streak
3 Yale
Current streak
3 Yale
Last 10 meetings
Yale 3–⁠0
Most recent
1927

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠2
1920s0–⁠1
Average margin
38.7 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Yale
3–⁠0 Yale’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Bowdoin and Yale, 1900 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1900 game: YALE. 30; RoWDoIN. 0.

    1900 · New-York tribune, Oct 18, 1900

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1901 game: YALE, 40; BOWDOIN. O.

    1901 · New-York tribune, New York, Oct 17, 1901

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

Oct 1, 1927Yale 41, Bowdoin 0at Yale
Oct 16, 1901Yale 45, Bowdoin 0at Yale
Oct 17, 1900Yale 30, Bowdoin 0at Yale

Every game is listed as played on the field.