On October 14, Iowa made a trip to New Haven to play Eastern powerhouse Yale. The Elis had already beaten Bates, Carnegie Tech and North Carolina by a combined score of 79–0. Yale was coached by the younger brother of Iowa coach Howard Jones, Tad Jones, who had coached the Elis to a 27–5 record from 1916 to 1917 and 1920 to 1922. Yale had an eleven-game home winning streak at the Yale Bowl. The Elis had never lost to a team from the West in fifty years of varsity football.