Question: Which university was founded first, Vanderbilt University or Yale University?
Context: The 2012 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season.  (variously "VU" "Vandy" Vanderbilt "Dores") The Commodores played their six home games at Vanderbilt Stadium at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee, which has been Vanderbilt football's home stadium since 1922.  The team's head coach was James Franklin, who is in his second year at Vanderbilt.  Vanderbilt has been a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) since the league's inception in 1932, and has participated in the conference's Eastern Division since its formation for the 1992 season.  On November 11, 2012 Vandy became bowl eligible in back to back years for the first time in its 123-year football history.  This was the first time since 1935 that Vandy won five SEC games in a year and the first time in 30 years that they won at home against Tennessee.  Vanderbilt finished the year with the longest current SEC winning streak.  For the first time since 1948, Vanderbilt finished the season with a top 25 ranking. Vanderbilt University Law School (also known as Vanderbilt Law School or VLS) is a graduate school of Vanderbilt University.  Established in 1874, it is one of the oldest law schools in the southern United States.  Vanderbilt Law has consistently ranked among the top 20 law schools in the nation, and is currently ranked 17th in the 2018 edition of "U.S. News & World Report".  Vanderbilt Law School enrolls approximately 640 students, with each entering Juris Doctor class consisting of approximately 175 students. Colin Dayan (also known as Joan Dayan), is the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches American Studies, comparative literature, and the religious and legal history of the Americas.  She has written extensively on prison law and torture, Caribbean culture and literary history, as well as on Haitian poetics, Edgar Allan Poe, and the history of slavery.  After receiving her Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 1980, she taught at Princeton University, Yale University, the City University of New York, the University of Arizona, and the University of Pennsylvania. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is a medical school located in Nashville, Tennessee.  Located in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the southeastern side of the Vanderbilt University campus, the School of Medicine claims two Nobel laureates: Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., in 1971, for his discovery of the metabolic regulating compound cyclic AMP, and Stanley Cohen, in 1986, for his discovery with a colleague of epidermal growth factor. David Hotchkiss Price (January 29, 1957) is an American historian and a scholar of early modern culture.  He is Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University.  Price studied classics (BA) and German (MA) at the University of Cincinnati before receiving his PhD in German from Yale University (1985).  He previously taught at the University of Illinois, Yale and the University of Texas at Austin] Price is the author of books on the Bible in English, Reformation drama, humanist poetry, Albrecht Dürer, and Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish Book Controversy of the early sixteenth century. Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) is one of the graduate schools of Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee.  VUSN enjoys a close relationship with its university parent and with the separate nonprofit Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for its highly acclaimed teaching hospital and groundbreaking efforts in electronic medical records.  The School of Nursing is ranked, along with the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, in the top 20 in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Vanderbilt University (also known informally as Vandy) is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee.  Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the South.  Vanderbilt hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. The 2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season.  The Commodores played their seven home games at Vanderbilt Stadium at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee, which has been Vanderbilt football's home stadium since 1922.  The team's head coach was James Franklin, who was in his first year at Vanderbilt.  Hired at Vanderbilt on December 17, 2010, he was previously the offensive coordinator and "head coach in waiting" at the University of Maryland.  Vanderbilt has been a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) since the league's inception in 1932, and has participated in the conference's Eastern Division since its formation for the 1992 season.  Vanderbilt completed the 2011 regular season with an overall record of 6–6 and a mark of 2–6 in conference play, finishing in a tie with Kentucky for fourth place in the SEC East.  They were invited to the Liberty Bowl where they were defeated by Cincinnati 24–31 to finish the season 6–7.  2011.  The seniors of the 2011 Vanderbilt football team became the first class in program history to qualify for two bowl game's while at the school.  Vanderbilt had only been to bowls in 1955 VS Auburn, 1974 VS Texas Tech, 1982 VS Air Force, and 2008 VS Boston College. The 2013 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represents Vanderbilt University during the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season.  The Commodores play their seven home games at Vanderbilt Stadium at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee, which has been Vanderbilt football's home stadium since 1922.  The 2013 team is coming off back-to-back bowls for the first time in school history.  The 2012 season was the best win pct since 1955 (.692) the nine wins was the most since 1915, and the 5 SEC wins was the most since 1935.  The 2012 season ended with the current longest win streak in the SEC, needless to say this was one of the best seasons in Vanderbilt football history.  The 2013 team was headed by James Franklin who was in his 3rd and final year at Vanderbilt.  It marked the Commodores 123rd overall season, 80th as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and its 22nd within the SEC Eastern Division.  For the third straight year Vanderbilt had made it to a bowl game the game was the first played after December 31 of the same year of the season.  Vandy defeated Houston Cougars in the BBVA Compass Bowl 41–24.  Vanderbilt finished with 9 wins back to back for the first time in school history, also for the first time was ranked in the top 25 of AP and Coaches polls in back-to-back years. Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.  Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Answer: Yale University