Bucknell vs. Yale

Bucknell and Yale have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1902; Yale leads the series 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Yale 3–⁠0, and Yale has won the last 3.

Bucknell wins
0
Yale wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1902
Longest streak
3 Yale
Current streak
3 Yale
Last 10 meetings
Yale 3–⁠0
Most recent
2022

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠1
1920s0–⁠1
2020s0–⁠1
Average margin
22 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Yale
3–⁠0 Yale’s record at home

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 Bucknell and Yale, 1902 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 1902 game: ROUGH WORK AT YALE FIELD. BUCKNELL MEN SCORED BY REFEREE-THE BLUE ELEVEN WON BY "a TO 5.

    1902 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 9, 1902

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1923 game: BUCKNELL HOLDS YALE, SCORE 29-l4 Bulldog Surprised By Attack Late In The Game

    1923 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Oct 21, 1923

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 15, 2022Yale 29, Bucknell 9at Yale
Oct 20, 1923Yale 29, Bucknell 14at Yale
Nov 8, 1902Yale 36, Bucknell 5at Yale

Every game is listed as played on the field.