Virginia vs. Yale
Virginia and Yale have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1914; Yale leads the series 3–2–1 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Yale 3–2. Share
- Virginia wins
- 2
- Yale wins
- 3
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1914
- Longest streak
- 1 Yale
- Current streak
- 0 tie
- Last 10 meetings
- Yale 3–2
- Most recent
- 1944
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 16 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Yale
- 3–2–1 Yale’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Virginia’s biggest win1915: Virginia 10, Yale 0by 10 points
- Yale’s biggest win1916: Yale 61, Virginia 3by 58 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

1914 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 4, 1914

1915 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 3, 1915

1916 · Evening star, Oct 10, 1916

1941 · The Waterbury Democrat, Oct 6, 1941

1944 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Nov 26, 1944
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
| Nov 25, 1944 | Yale 6, Virginia 6 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 4, 1941 | Yale 21, Virginia 19 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 5, 1940 | Virginia 19, Yale 14 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 7, 1916 | Yale 61, Virginia 3 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 2, 1915 | Virginia 10, Yale 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 3, 1914 | Yale 21, Virginia 0 | at Yale |
Every game is listed as played on the field.