They had formed a loose association with other public colleges in New England such as present day New Hampshire and Rhode Island for the purpose of scheduling football matchups between the schools.

[3] The colleges continued to schedule matches intermittently until after World War I, when they began to play on an almost-yearly basis through the mid-1920s.

The series was discontinued until 1932, when the schools again met each year until World War II saw both universities disband their football teams.

The schools would not match up again on the gridiron until UConn joined Massachusetts in the Yankee Conference in 1952.

In the remaining years of the rivalry, the series was much more even, with neither team able to put together a winning streak of more than four games.