Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Cornell’s side (Sharpe 3–3 against Yost). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Cornell MichiganTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
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
1890 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 17, 1890
1892 · Los Angeles herald, California, Nov 25, 1892
1894 · St. Paul daily globe, Saint Paul, Minn., Nov 25, 1894
1911 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 12, 1911
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.
From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited), and the Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Division (no known restrictions on publication).