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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s0–⁠2–⁠1
1920s0–⁠1
1930s0–⁠4
2010s0–⁠2
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

  1. Yale’s biggest win1930: Yale 38, Maine 0by 38 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Maine and Yale, 1913 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1913 game: IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS. Maine Holds Yale to a Tie Game=-BIue Unable to Score.

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

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1914 game: Beats Maine Eleven in Way to Lend Encourage ment for the Future. LIE GORE SHINES IN BLUE BACKFIELD Forward Passes Serve to Ad- vance the Ball Many Yards and Open Way, to Scores.

    1914 · New-York tribune, Sep 27, 1914

  • The The sun's story of the 1915 game: YALE CRUSHES MAINE ELEVEN BY OPEN PLAY Passing Tricks Executed in Deft Fashion and Score Mounts to 81 to u. CT ERNSEN SUCCEEDS ON EVERY GAL KICK

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

  • The New Britain herald's story of the 1928 game: YALE SCORES WIN ! IN Opening GAME But Falls to Show Much Stuff in Maine Victory

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

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story of the 1937 game: POND PEEvED AT PLAY OF TALES Much Hard Work Ahead for Penn Game Saturday; Fundamentals Stressed

    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, 2018Yale 35, Maine 14at Yale
Oct 17, 2015Yale 21, Maine 10at Maine
Oct 2, 1937Yale 26, Maine 0at Yale
Oct 7, 1933Yale 14, Maine 7at Yale
Oct 3, 1931Yale 19, Maine 0at Yale
Sep 27, 1930Yale 38, Maine 0at Yale
Oct 6, 1928Yale 27, Maine 0at Yale
Sep 25, 1915Yale 37, Maine 0at Yale
Sep 26, 1914Yale 20, Maine 0at Yale
Oct 4, 1913Yale 0, Maine 0at Yale

Every game is listed as played on the field.