Maine vs. Yale
Maine and Yale first met in 1913 and have played 10 times; Yale leads the series 9–0–1. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Yale 9–0, and Yale has won the last 9. Share
- Maine wins
- 0
- Yale wins
- 9
- Ties
- 1
- First meeting
- 1913
- Longest streak
- 9 Yale
- Current streak
- 9 Yale
- Last 10 meetings
- Yale 9–0
- Most recent
- 2018
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 0–2–1 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 0–4 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 0–2 |
- Average margin
- 20.6 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Maine
- 0–1 Maine’s record at home
- At Yale
- 8–0–1 Yale’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 6
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Yale’s biggest win1930: Yale 38, Maine 0by 38 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

1913 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 6, 1913

1914 · New-York tribune, Sep 27, 1914

1915 · The sun, New York [N.Y.], Sep 26, 1915

1928 · New Britain herald, New Britain, Conn., Oct 8, 1928

1937 · The Waterbury Democrat, Oct 4, 1937
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
| Sep 29, 2018 | Yale 35, Maine 14 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 17, 2015 | Yale 21, Maine 10 | at Maine | ||
| Oct 2, 1937 | Yale 26, Maine 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 7, 1933 | Yale 14, Maine 7 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 3, 1931 | Yale 19, Maine 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 27, 1930 | Yale 38, Maine 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 6, 1928 | Yale 27, Maine 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 25, 1915 | Yale 37, Maine 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 26, 1914 | Yale 20, Maine 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 4, 1913 | Yale 0, Maine 0 | at Yale |
Every game is listed as played on the field.