Trinity (CT) vs. Yale
Trinity (CT) and Yale have 17 meetings on file, the first in 1877; Yale leads the series 17–0 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Yale 10–0, and Yale has won the last 17. Share
- Trinity (CT) wins
- 0
- Yale wins
- 17
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1877
- Longest streak
- 17 Yale
- Current streak
- 17 Yale
- Last 10 meetings
- Yale 10–0
- Most recent
- 1904
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1870s | 0–3 | ||||||||||
| 1880s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1890s | 0–8 | ||||||||||
| 1900s | 0–5 |
- Average margin
- 26.1 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Trinity (CT)
- 0–7 Trinity (CT)‘s record at home
- At Yale
- 10–0 Yale’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 17
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Yale’s biggest win1889: Yale 64, Trinity (CT) 0by 64 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
1878 · New-York tribune, Nov 12, 1878
1894 · The daily morning journal and courier, Oct 1, 1894
1896 · The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], Sep 27, 1896
1897 · The Jersey City news, Jersey City [N.J.], Sep 30, 1897
1898 · The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., Sep 25, 1898
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, 1904 | Yale 42, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 26, 1903 | Yale 35, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 27, 1902 | Yale 40, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 28, 1901 | Yale 23, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 29, 1900 | Yale 22, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 4, 1899 | Yale 46, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 24, 1898 | Yale 18, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Trinity (CT) | ||
| Sep 29, 1897 | Yale 10, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Trinity (CT) | ||
| Sep 26, 1896 | Yale 6, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Trinity (CT) | ||
| Sep 28, 1895 | Yale 8, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Trinity (CT) | ||
| Sep 29, 1894 | Yale 42, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Trinity (CT) | ||
| Oct 7, 1891 | Yale 36, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Trinity (CT) | ||
| Oct 15, 1890 | Yale 40, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 24, 1889 | Yale 64, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Trinity (CT) | ||
| Nov 13, 1878 | Yale 3, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Yale | ||
| Nov 9, 1878 | Yale 2, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Yale | ||
| Nov 21, 1877 | Yale 7, Trinity (CT) 0 | at Yale |
Every game is listed as played on the field.