Harvard-Yale football games (The Game)

Harvard–Yale football rivalry
Harvard Crimson	Yale Bulldogs
First game played	November 13, 1875
Played annually since	1897 (Not played 1917–1918 due to World War I; not played 1943–44 due to World War II)
Games played	133 (through 2016)
Series record	Yale leads, 66–59–8
Largest margin of victory	Yale 54, Harvard 0 (November 23, 1957)
Highest scoring game	Yale 33, Harvard 31 (November 20, 1993)
Lowest scoring game	Yale 0, Harvard 0 (last time: November 21, 1925)
Most recent game	Yale 21, Harvard 14 (November 19, 2016)
Next game	November 18, 2017
Current win streak	Yale, 1

The Harvard–Yale football rivalry is renewed annually with The Game, an American college football contest between the Harvard Crimson football team of Harvard University and the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University.

The contest concludes the season for both programs, the winner does not take possession of a physical prize, and the respective Yale residential college football teams compete against "sister" Harvard house teams the day before.The Game (with the Princeton-Yale contest second) is third among most-played NCAA Division 1 football rivalries. Yale leads the series 66–59–8.

"Harvard and Yale generally duke it out in the academic arena" but geographic proximity, the history of Yale's founding, and social competition between the respective student and alumni bodies animate the athletic rivalries. Competition for undergraduate matriculants helps sustain the rivalry. The Crimson editorial board published a sophomoric editorial April 15, 2016 headlined "Why Harvard? Because Yale Sucks" for consideration by recently admitted high school seniors visiting the Cambridge campus. "Yuck Fale, Pick Harvard" was the headline of a blog entry, published Mar. 30, 2017, with advice to "cross-admits" to Yale and Harvard. Competition of a sort is waged and watched between managers of the respective university financial endowments.The Game is the most popular and best known aspect of the rivalry.

Harvard football head coach Joe Restic, who held position for 23 seasons, quipped regarding his relationship with retired Yale football head coach and National Football Foundation/College Football Hall of Fame member Carm Cozza, who held position for 32 seasons: "Each year, we're friends for 364 days and rivals for one." The athletic rivalry is historically the first in American intercollegiate athletics.

...
Wikipedia