Holy Cross vs. Yale
Holy Cross and Yale first met in 1903 and have played 29 times; Yale leads the series 22–7. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Yale 6–4, and Yale has won the last 3. Share
- Holy Cross wins
- 7
- Yale wins
- 22
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1903
- Longest streak
- 11 Yale
- Current streak
- 3 Yale
- Last 10 meetings
- Yale 6–4
- Most recent
- 2026
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 0–7 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 0–4 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 1–3 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 1–2 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 3–3 |
- Average margin
- 15.9 points; 9 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Holy Cross
- 2–5 Holy Cross’s record at home
- At Yale
- 17–5 Yale’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 12
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Holy Cross’s biggest win2023: Holy Cross 49, Yale 24by 25 points
- Yale’s biggest win1907: Yale 52, Holy Cross 0by 52 points
- Upset2021: Holy Cross 20, Yale 17Holy Cross had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset2005: Holy Cross 22, Yale 19Holy Cross had a 35% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Both programs through the years
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

1903 · The Montgomery advertiser, Oct 15, 1903

1904 · New-York tribune, Oct 6, 1904

1905 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 15, 1905

1906 · New-York tribune, New York, Oct 14, 1906

1907 · New-York tribune, Oct 13, 1907
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
Every game is listed as played on the field.