Columbia vs. Yale

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

1. Columbia’s biggest win1965: Columbia 21, Yale 7by 14 points
2. Yale’s biggest win1883: Yale 93, Columbia 0by 93 points
3. Upset2015: Columbia 17, Yale 7Columbia had a 13% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1961: Columbia 11, Yale 0Columbia had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1958: Columbia 13, Yale 0Columbia had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1947: Yale 17, Columbia 7No. 14 Yale at No. 11 Columbia
7. Ranked showdown1946: Columbia 28, Yale 20No. 11 Columbia at No. 15 Yale

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Columbia’s side (Little 2–⁠1 against Pond). 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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  1881 · Morning journal and courier, Connecticut, Nov 17, 1881

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  1882 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 19, 1882

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  1889 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 27, 1889

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  1899 · The sun, New York [N.Y.], Oct 29, 1899

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  1900 · The times, Washington [D.C.], Oct 28, 1900

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.

• Columbia vs. Cornell91 meetings, Columbia 36–⁠52–⁠3
• Columbia vs. Pennsylvania84 meetings, Columbia 22–⁠61–⁠1
• Columbia vs. Princeton74 meetings, Columbia 12–⁠61–⁠1
• Columbia vs. Dartmouth73 meetings, Columbia 16–⁠57
• 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