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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠1
1930s0–⁠3
1940s2–⁠0
1950s1–⁠0–⁠1
1980s1–⁠1
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

  1. Navy’s biggest win1988: Navy 41, Yale 7by 34 points
  2. Yale’s biggest win1901: Yale 24, Navy 0by 24 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Navy and Yale, 1901 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 New-York tribune's story of the 1901 game: Orange YALE WINS AT ANNAPOLIS. 1"o IoUCHDowNs MADE IN EACH HAHN AGAINST NAVAL CADETS

    1901 · New-York tribune, Oct 13, 1901

  • The Evening star's story of the 1935 game: MIDSHIPMEN WIN HEARTS OF $4,000 Lose Foot Ball Game, but Please Yale Crowd With Songs and Drills.

    1935 · Evening star, Oct 20, 1935

  • The Evening star's story of the 1940 game

    1940 · Evening star, Oct 27, 1940

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story of the 1942 game: YALE GLOOMY AS NEXT LOSS NEAR Dartmouth to Be Strong Choice After Eli Loss to Navy

    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, 1988Navy 41, Yale 7at Navy
Oct 3, 1981Yale 23, Navy 19at Yale
Sep 27, 1952Navy 31, Yale 0at Navy
Sep 29, 1951Yale 7, Navy 7at Yale
Oct 17, 1942Navy 13, Yale 6at Navy
Oct 26, 1940Navy 21, Yale 0at Yale
Oct 15, 1938Yale 9, Navy 7at Yale
Oct 17, 1936Yale 12, Navy 7at Navy
Oct 19, 1935Yale 7, Navy 6at Yale
Oct 12, 1901Yale 24, Navy 0at Navy

Every game is listed as played on the field.