Colgate vs. Yale

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

1. Colgate’s biggest win2016: Colgate 55, Yale 13by 42 points
2. Yale’s biggest win1914: Yale 49, Colgate 7by 42 points
3. Upset1971: Colgate 28, Yale 21Colgate had a 19% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1961: Colgate 14, Yale 8Colgate had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1913: Colgate 16, Yale 6Colgate had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Colgate’s side (Lahar 2–⁠0–⁠3 against Olivar). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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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  1909 · New-York tribune, Oct 24, 1909

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  1910 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 30, 1910

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  1911 · Norwich bulletin, Connecticut, Oct 30, 1911

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  1913 · Norwich bulletin, Nov 3, 1913

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  1914 · The sun, New York [N.Y.], Nov 1, 1914

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.

• Colgate vs. Cornell90 meetings, Colgate 39–⁠48–⁠3
• Colgate vs. Holy Cross67 meetings, Colgate 32–⁠30–⁠5
• Colgate vs. Syracuse61 meetings, Colgate 25–⁠32–⁠4
• Colgate vs. Bucknell55 meetings, Colgate 42–⁠13
• 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