HALF CENTURY OF RIVALRY FINDS YALE IN LEAD, 25 TO 13

The first Harvard Yale game was played at New Haven on November 13, 1875, under Rugby rules with a Rugby ball. Owing to the comparative newness of the rules to the Elis the Crimson players completely out classed their opponents winning by four field goals and four touchdowns to nothing. In these days before the adoption of numerical scoring four touchdowns counted as one goal, which accounts for the Yale victory in 1876 portion.

The 1876 game started Yale on her series of wins broken only occasionally by a Harvard triumph that extended to 1908, when the late P. D. Hughton '99 took charge of Harvard football destinies. That year V. D. Kinnard '09 delivered the field goal that gave the Crimson the laurels. A defeat came the next year and two scoreless ties followed before the great Haughton system got fairly started on its conquering march that lasted with one half to 1923.

The scores of past Harvard Yale games follows: Date  Winner  Harvard  Yale 1875  Harvard  4 touchdowns  0 4 field goals 1876  Yale  3touchdowns  1 goal 1878  Yale  0  1 goal 1879  Tie  0  0 1880  Yale  0  1 goal 1 t 1881  Yale  4 safeties  0 1882  Yale  2 safeties  3 t, 1 g 1883  Yale  2  23 1884  Yale  0  48 1886  Yale  4  29 1887  Yale  8  17 1889  Yale  0  6 1890  Harvard  12  6 1891  Yale  0  10 1892  Yale  0  6 1893  Yale  0  6 1894  Yale  4  12 1897  Tie  0  0 1898  Harvard  17  0 1899  Tie  0  0 1900  Yale  0  28 1901  Harvard  22  0 1902  Yale  0  23 1903  Yale  0  16 1904  Yale  0  12 1905  Yale  0  6 1906  Yale  0  6 1907  Yale  0  12 1908  Harvard  4  0 1909  Yale  0  8 1910  Tie  0  0 1911  Tie  0  0 1912  Harvard  20  0 1913  Harvard  15  5 1914  Harvard  36  0 1915  Harvard  41  0 1916  Yale  3  6 1919  Harvard  10  3 1920  Harvard  9  0 1921  Harvard  10  3 1922  Harvard  10  3 1923  Yale  0  13 1924  Yale  6  19 1925  Tie  0  0

Games won by Harvard 13 by Yale 25. Games tied 6. 1915  Harvard  41  0