Wesleyan (CT) vs. Yale

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

1. Yale’s biggest win1886: Yale 136, Wesleyan (CT) 0by 136 points

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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  1884 · Morning journal and courier, Nov 6, 1884

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  1885 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 27, 1885

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  1886 · Morning journal and courier, Connecticut, Oct 7, 1886

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  1887 · Morning journal and courier, Connecticut, Oct 6, 1887

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  1888 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 17, 1888

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.

• Wesleyan (CT) vs. Amherst20 meetings, Wesleyan (CT) 15–⁠5
• Wesleyan (CT) vs. Harvard18 meetings, Wesleyan (CT) 1–⁠17
• Wesleyan (CT) vs. Trinity (CT)17 meetings, Wesleyan (CT) 14–⁠3
• Wesleyan (CT) vs. Columbia16 meetings, Wesleyan (CT) 1–⁠14–⁠1
• 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