Michigan vs. Yale
Michigan and Yale have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1881; the series is tied 2–2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–2, and Michigan has won the last 2. Share
- Michigan wins
- 2
- Yale wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1881
- Longest streak
- 2 Yale
- Current streak
- 2 Michigan
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 2–2
- Most recent
- 1939
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 22 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Michigan
- 1–0 Michigan’s record at home
- At Yale
- 2–1 Yale’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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
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 28, 1939 | 3Michigan 27, Yale 7 | at Michigan | ||
| Oct 22, 1938 | 12Michigan 15, Yale 13 | at Yale | ||
| Nov 21, 1883 | Yale 64, Michigan 0 | at Yale | ||
| Nov 2, 1881 | Yale 2, Michigan 0 | at Yale |
Every game is listed as played on the field.