Navy vs. Yale
Navy and Yale have 10 meetings on file, the first in 1901; Yale leads the series 5–4–1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Yale 5–4. Share
- Navy wins
- 4
- Yale wins
- 5
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1901
- Longest streak
- 4 Yale
- Current streak
- 1 Navy
- Last 10 meetings
- Yale 5–4
- Most recent
- 1988
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 0–3 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 1–0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 1–1 |
- Average margin
- 12.9 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Navy
- 3–2 Navy’s record at home
- At Yale
- 3–1–1 Yale’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Navy’s biggest win1988: Navy 41, Yale 7by 34 points
- Yale’s biggest win1901: Yale 24, Navy 0by 24 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

1901 · New-York tribune, Oct 13, 1901

1935 · Evening star, Oct 20, 1935

1940 · Evening star, Oct 27, 1940

1942 · The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, Oct 19, 1942
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 1, 1988 | Navy 41, Yale 7 | at Navy | ||
| Oct 3, 1981 | Yale 23, Navy 19 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 27, 1952 | Navy 31, Yale 0 | at Navy | ||
| Sep 29, 1951 | Yale 7, Navy 7 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 17, 1942 | Navy 13, Yale 6 | at Navy | ||
| Oct 26, 1940 | Navy 21, Yale 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 15, 1938 | Yale 9, Navy 7 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 17, 1936 | Yale 12, Navy 7 | at Navy | ||
| Oct 19, 1935 | Yale 7, Navy 6 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 12, 1901 | Yale 24, Navy 0 | at Navy |
Every game is listed as played on the field.