Pennsylvania vs. Yale

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

1. Pennsylvania’s biggest win1940: Pennsylvania 50, Yale 7by 43 points
2. Yale’s biggest win1886: Yale 75, Pennsylvania 0by 75 points
3. Upset1957: Pennsylvania 33, Yale 20Pennsylvania had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1962: Pennsylvania 15, Yale 12Pennsylvania had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2008: Pennsylvania 9, Yale 7Pennsylvania had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Pennsylvania’s side (Harman 0–⁠4 against Pond). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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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  1885 · Morning journal and courier, Nov 16, 1885

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  1886 · New-York tribune, Nov 14, 1886

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  1889 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 31, 1889

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  1890 · Pittsburg dispatch, Pittsburg [Pa.], Nov 16, 1890

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  1891 · The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], Nov 15, 1891

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.

• Pennsylvania vs. Cornell110 meetings, Pennsylvania 65–⁠40–⁠5
• Pennsylvania vs. Princeton95 meetings, Pennsylvania 31–⁠63–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Columbia84 meetings, Pennsylvania 61–⁠22–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Lafayette80 meetings, Pennsylvania 55–⁠21–⁠4
• 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