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Yale Bowl

Yale Bowl in New Haven, CT, home of Yale. Capacity 61,446. Opened November 21, 1914.

Yale Bowl in New Haven, CT
Yale Bowl, New Haven, CTPhoto: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
61,446
Opened
1914
Surface
Field Turf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
17 ft
Home team
Yale
Yale here
76–⁠41 games on file since 2003
National Historic Landmark
1987

Since it opened: Yale is 367–⁠165–⁠21 in home games from the 1914 season on. Our source names a game’s stadium only from 2001, so that count takes every earlier home game not marked neutral and may include a few played elsewhere.

Biggest games here

From the games on file here, 2003 on: title and postseason games, meetings of two ranked teams, upsets by our pregame Elo ratings and the biggest swings in CollegeFootballData.com’s excitement index.

Crowds season by season

Average and biggest crowd at Yale Bowl by season, 2003 to 20260k20k40k60k80k2003: 23,578 a game over 5 games; biggest 53,1362004: 13,877 a game over 5 games; biggest 17,7372005: 21,667 a game over 5 games; biggest 53,2132006: 22,983 a game over 3 games; biggest 43,4062007: 22,793 a game over 5 games; biggest 57,2482008: 11,071 a game over 5 games; biggest 14,5122009: 21,245 a game over 5 games; biggest 52,6922010: 14,592 a game over 6 games; biggest 27,4412011: 23,730 a game over 5 games; biggest 55,1372012: 12,453 a game over 5 games; biggest 21,8242013: 19,809 a game over 5 games; biggest 50,9342014: 15,193 a game over 6 games; biggest 34,1422015: 20,547 a game over 4 games; biggest 52,1262016: 8,795 a game over 5 games; biggest 15,3212017: 21,621 a game over 4 games; biggest 51,4262018: 7,028 a game over 4 games; biggest 12,8822019: 12,133 a game over 6 games; biggest 44,9892021: 13,263 a game over 5 games; biggest 49,5002022: 6,299 a game over 5 games; biggest 9,2002023: 11,581 a game over 7 games; biggest 51,1272024: 5,310 a game over 5 games; biggest 7,5942025: 12,398 a game over 6 games; biggest 52,4972026: 5,171 a game over 2 games; biggest 6,32020032008201320182023

Biggest crowds on file

57,248Harvard at Yale2007
55,137Harvard at Yale2011
53,213Harvard at Yale2005
53,136Harvard at Yale2003
52,692Harvard at Yale2009

Bars are each season’s average crowd, dots its biggest (the record in orange), the dashed rule today’s capacity. Attendance is on file for most games from 2001 on.

Weather on game day

Coldest kickoffs

Hottest kickoffs

Coldest game days before 2004

Hottest game days before 2004

Snow on game day

Kickoffs: the NOAA report nearest kickoff from the closest weather station (NOAA NCEI Integrated Surface Database). Game days: the day’s high and snowfall at the NOAA station nearest the stadium, for Yale’s home games before 2004 (NOAA GHCN-Daily, public domain).

The stadium’s history

Opened
November 21, 1914
Architect
Charles A. Ferry (Class of 1871)
Surface over the years
Field Turf (2019–present)
Natural grass (1914–⁠2018)

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Yale Bowl.

From above

100 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 250 by 270 meters (840 by 870 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

On the National Register

Listed
February 27, 1987
National Historic Landmark
Designated April 27, 1987
Reference
No. 87000756, significant at the national level The nomination

National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service; nominations in the National Archives catalog.

Recent games here

Oct 17, 2026Rhode Island 41, Yale 23
Oct 10, 2026Yale 28, Dartmouth 7
Oct 3, 2026Yale 41, Merrimack 24
Nov 22, 2025Yale 45, Harvard 28
Nov 1, 2025Yale 24, Columbia 10
Oct 25, 2025Yale 35, Pennsylvania 13
Oct 18, 2025Yale 47, Stonehill 7
Sep 27, 2025Yale 41, Cornell 24
Sep 20, 2025Yale 28, Holy Cross 10
Nov 16, 2024Yale 42, Princeton 28
Nov 9, 2024Yale 56, Brown 34
Oct 19, 2024Yale 38, Lehigh 23