Lafayette vs. Yale
Lafayette and Yale first met in 1912 and have played 8 times; Yale leads the series 5–3. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Yale 5–3, and Lafayette has won the last 3. Share
- Lafayette wins
- 3
- Yale wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1912
- Longest streak
- 5 Yale
- Current streak
- 3 Lafayette
- Last 10 meetings
- Yale 5–3
- Most recent
- 2012
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 2–0 |
- Average margin
- 23 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Lafayette
- 1–1 Lafayette’s record at home
- At Yale
- 4–2 Yale’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 4
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Lafayette’s biggest win2009: Lafayette 31, Yale 14by 17 points
- Yale’s biggest win1935: Yale 55, Lafayette 0by 55 points
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

1912 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 13, 1912

1913 · The Raymer enterprise, Colorado, Oct 16, 1913

1935 · Evening star, Nov 17, 1935

1952 · Evening star, Oct 26, 1952
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 13, 2012 | Lafayette 20, Yale 10 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 15, 2011 | Lafayette 28, Yale 19 | at Lafayette | ||
| Oct 3, 2009 | Lafayette 31, Yale 14 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 30, 2006 | Yale 37, Lafayette 34 | at Lafayette | ||
| Oct 25, 1952 | Yale 47, Lafayette 0 | at Yale | ||
| Nov 16, 1935 | Yale 55, Lafayette 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 11, 1913 | Yale 27, Lafayette 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 12, 1912 | Yale 16, Lafayette 0 | at Yale |
Every game is listed as played on the field.