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Tufts vs. Yale

Tufts and Yale first met in 1877 and have played 10 times; Yale leads the series 10–⁠0. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Yale 10–⁠0, and Yale has won the last 10.

Tufts wins
0
Yale wins
10
Ties
0
First meeting
1877
Longest streak
10 Yale
Current streak
10 Yale
Last 10 meetings
Yale 10–⁠0
Most recent
1945

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1870s0–⁠1
1890s0–⁠2
1900s0–⁠4
1910s0–⁠2
1940s0–⁠1
Average margin
28.7 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Yale
10–⁠0 Yale’s record at home
Shutouts
7

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Yale’s biggest win1894: Yale 67, Tufts 0by 67 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Tufts and Yale, 1877 on13001500170018801900192019401960198020002020

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 The age-herald's story of the 1900 game: FOOTBALL.

    1900 · The age-herald, Oct 7, 1900

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1901 game: THE GRID|R0N. The Boys from Bates College Scores on Harvard. Put Up Remarkably Good Play Game Ends; Harvard, l6; Bates, s. TUFTS Scores on Yale.-lhc Results Of Other Games. Saturday.

    1901 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 7, 1901

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1902 game: YALE. 81; TUFTS. s. 0ALE, Of II Is ,. THE MASSACHUSETTS MEN SCORE oND ToUCHDOwN-LEssONs FOR THE MEN IN BLUE. MEN IN BLUE

    1902 · New-York tribune, New York, Oct 2, 1902

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1903 game: ON THE GRiD1R0N. Harvard Very Easily Wins from Bowdoin, "a to 0. Brown Does a Similar Trick for the Colby Eleven, % to 0. Yale, II; Tufts, 0-Pensy, II; Frank. lin and Marshall, 0.

    1903 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 1, 1903

  • The The times dispatch's story of the 1910 game: YALE DEFEATS TUFTS. Only scoring i. Done in First Half of

    1910 · The times dispatch, Richmond, Va., Oct 6, 1910

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

Sep 29, 1945Yale 27, Tufts 7at Yale
Oct 25, 1919Yale 37, Tufts 0at Yale
Oct 5, 1910Yale 17, Tufts 0at Yale
Sep 30, 1903Yale 19, Tufts 0at Yale
Oct 1, 1902Yale 34, Tufts 6at Yale
Oct 5, 1901Yale 29, Tufts 5at Yale
Oct 6, 1900Yale 30, Tufts 0at Yale
Nov 7, 1894Yale 67, Tufts 0at Yale
Oct 29, 1892Yale 44, Tufts 0at Yale
Nov 3, 1877Yale 1, Tufts 0at Yale

Every game is listed as played on the field.