UConn vs. Yale

UConn and Yale have 34 meetings on file, the first in 1948; Yale leads the series 30–⁠4 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Yale 8–⁠2.

UConn wins
4
Yale wins
30
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1948
Longest streak
16 Yale
Current streak
1 UConn
Last 10 meetings
Yale 8–⁠2
Most recent
2021

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠2
1950s0–⁠9
1960s2–⁠8
1970s1–⁠9
1980s0–⁠2
2020s1–⁠0
Average margin
13.9 points; 11 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At UConn
1–⁠0 UConn’s record at home
At Yale
30–⁠3 Yale’s record at home
Shutouts
13

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

Games that tell the story

  1. UConn’s biggest win1973: UConn 27, Yale 13by 14 points
  2. Yale’s biggest win1953: Yale 32, UConn 0by 32 points
  3. Upset1969: UConn 19, Yale 15UConn had a 8% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1973: UConn 27, Yale 13UConn had a 12% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset1965: UConn 13, Yale 6UConn had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of UConn and Yale, 1948 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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 Evening star's story of the 1948 game: Wheezing Yale Beats Little Connecticut In 'Breather,' 10

    1948 · Evening star, Oct 3, 1948

  • The Evening star's story of the 1950 game: Cincinnati Pittsburgh Ed Senay is Yale Star AS Connecticut Bows

    1950 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 24, 1950

  • The Evening star's story of the 1952 game

    1952 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 21, 1952

  • The Evening star's story of the 1953 game: Yale Surge Crushes Connecticut, 80

    1953 · Evening star, Sep 27, 1953

  • The Evening star's story of the 1954 game: Yale Wins, 27-0, Over Connecticut

    1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 26, 1954

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 16, 2021UConn 21, Yale 15at UConn
Sep 26, 1981Yale 27, UConn 18at Yale
Sep 27, 1980Yale 20, UConn 10at Yale
Sep 29, 1979Yale 24, UConn 17at Yale
Sep 30, 1978Yale 21, UConn 7at Yale
Sep 24, 1977Yale 23, UConn 12at Yale
Sep 25, 1976Yale 21, UConn 10at Yale
Sep 27, 1975Yale 35, UConn 14at Yale
Sep 28, 1974Yale 20, UConn 7at Yale
Sep 29, 1973UConn 27, Yale 13at Yale
Sep 30, 1972Yale 28, UConn 7at Yale
Sep 25, 1971Yale 23, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 26, 1970Yale 10, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 27, 1969UConn 19, Yale 15at Yale
Sep 28, 1968Yale 31, UConn 14at Yale
Oct 7, 1967Yale 14, UConn 6at Yale
Sep 24, 1966Yale 16, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 25, 1965UConn 13, Yale 6at Yale
Sep 26, 1964Yale 21, UConn 6at Yale
Sep 28, 1963Yale 3, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 29, 1962Yale 18, UConn 14at Yale
Sep 30, 1961Yale 18, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 24, 1960Yale 11, UConn 8at Yale
Sep 26, 1959Yale 20, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 27, 1958Yale 8, UConn 6at Yale
Sep 28, 1957Yale 27, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 29, 1956Yale 19, UConn 14at Yale
Sep 24, 1955Yale 14, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 25, 1954Yale 27, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 26, 1953Yale 32, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 20, 1952Yale 34, UConn 13at Yale
Sep 23, 1950Yale 25, UConn 0at Yale
Sep 24, 1949Yale 26, UConn 0at Yale
Oct 2, 1948Yale 7, UConn 0at Yale

Every game is listed as played on the field.