Princeton-Yale football rivalry
| Sport | Football |
|---|---|
| First meeting | November 15, 1873 Princeton 3, Yale 0 |
| Latest meeting | November 12, 2016 Princeton 31, Yale 3 |
| Next meeting | November 11, 2017 |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 139 |
| All-time series | Yale leads, 76–53–10 |
| Largest victory | Yale, 51–14 (1931) |
| Longest win streak | Yale, 14 (1967–1980) |
| Current win streak | Princeton, 1 (2016–present) |
The Princeton–Yale football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Princeton Tigers of Princeton University and the Yale Bulldogs of Yale University. The football rivalry is among the oldest in American sports.
The rivalry is one of the oldest continuous rivalries in American sports, the oldest continuing rivalry in the history of American football, and is constituent to the Big Three academic, athletic and social rivalry among alumni and students associated with Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities.
The Kentucky Derby and Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show example American sporting events that are older or have been engaged continuously longer than this contest.
Princeton claims 28 collegiate football national championships. Yale claims 27 collegiate national football championship. And the rivalry has been played seriously beyond the gridiron, sometimes for future undergraduate matriculants. Princeton's Undergraduate Dean of Admissions in 2002 was charged with hacking the Yale undergraduate admissions website.
Princeton and Yale first met on the gridiron in 1873 and soon dominated the sport. Princeton has been considered the best football program of the nineteenth century. Princeton played the University of Virginia in 1890, a contest considered the first major North - South intersectional football matchup. Princeton won, 116 - 0. Yale's record was 100 - 4 - 5 in the 1900s.
In the mid to late 20th century a saying regarding the fortunes of the Yale football program gained currency among different constituencies. As reported in the November 9, 1970 issue of Sports Illustrated, the saying offered that the alumni would rather beat Harvard, the coaches would rather beat Dartmouth, and "the players would rather beat Princeton".
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