Penn State vs. Yale

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Yale’s biggest win1899: Yale 42, Penn State 0by 42 points

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.

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  1899 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 12, 1899

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  1901 · The Worcester spy, Worcester, Mass., Oct 20, 1901

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  1902 · The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., Oct 19, 1902

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  1903 · The Washington times, Washington [D.C.], Oct 18, 1903

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  1905 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 22, 1905

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Penn State vs. Pittsburgh99 meetings, Penn State 52–⁠43–⁠4
• Penn State vs. Syracuse71 meetings, Penn State 43–⁠23–⁠5
• Penn State vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Penn State 50–⁠9–⁠2
• Penn State vs. Maryland48 meetings, Penn State 44–⁠3–⁠1
• Yale vs. Princeton126 meetings, Yale 71–⁠45–⁠10
• Yale vs. Harvard120 meetings, Yale 62–⁠50–⁠8
• Yale vs. Brown108 meetings, Yale 79–⁠25–⁠4
• Yale vs. Dartmouth88 meetings, Yale 50–⁠33–⁠5