The Game (Harvard–Yale)

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.

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 bodies and alumni contingents animate the athletic 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 the first ever in the annals of American sport.

The signature Harvard fight song, "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," names Yale in the famous final stanza. The song is sung in the Harvard football lockerroom after a victory regardless the opponent. "Down The Field" is Yale's signature fight song and Harvard is the foe named. Pulitzer Prize winning composer Douglas Moore's "Goodnight, Harvard" states plainly Yale's chief athletic adversary.

The football rivalry is among the most admired rivalries on the American athletic scene. The schools and the rivalry established the template for American college football. The football rivalry has accounted for most of either rival's well-publicized athletic feats.

The Game is central to the Harvard–Yale athletic rivalry. Sports Illustrated (College Edition) rated the rivalry sixth-best among American athletic collegiate rivalries behind in order Alabama - Auburn, Duke - North Carolina, UCLA - USC, Army - Navy, and Cal - Stanford. The football rivalry was ranked eighth among Athlon Sports Top 25 rivalries in the history of college football.

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