Wesleyan (CT) at Brown
Saturday, November 2, 1895 Share
Brown beat Wesleyan (CT) 10–5. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Brown led the series 3–1.
FinalHigh 40°F, low 33°F
In the newspapers

The morning times, District of Columbia, November 7, 1895, page 1
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The teams lined up as follows: G.. A c. Central. WON BY BROWN. With Crippled Team she Defeated WESLEYAN Providence, R. l., Nov. 6.-with greatly crippled team Brown won rc-iays game with Wesleyan by the score of 10 to .. Browns touchdown in the first two minutes of play was followed by three quarters OF an hour uf monotonous and I’M scientific work. Wesleyan meant bust = ness ali the way through, but II the team work OF the home eleven had been any where near its usual strength victory would have been large. The interference OF the Brown eleven was poor. Twice during the game Wesleyan had the ball inside of Browns five-yard line, but was unable to push IL over.

New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 7, 1895, page 4
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BROWN DEFEATS WESLEYAN. Providence r. l., Nov. (SpeciaD.-Brown Uni yersity beat Wesleyan In fumblng game Of foot bail this afternoon Lincoln Field. The home team. badly crippled from yesterdays game with the Crescents, used substitutes largely and made but little impression Weseyan’s centre. The game was fought mostly in the middle of the field Robinson made a touchdown for Brown in three minutes but Matteson failed to kick goal. During the second half the Brown boys took on new courleyan kicked the ball away toward the Brown goal but Matteson captured II, ran across three-fourths of the field, and made a touchdown. The score was brown 10: Wesleyan, g.
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Brown 88% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Wesleyan (CT)–Brown gameBrown leads 12–2 in 14 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.
| 1941 | Brown 20, Wesleyan (CT) 6 | |
| 1940 | Brown 41, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | |
| 1914 | Brown 16, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | |
| 1912 | Wesleyan (CT) 7, Brown 6 | |
| 1906 | Brown 17, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | |
| 1904 | Brown 12, Wesleyan (CT) 0 |
Around this game
Wesleyan (CT)
- Next gameat Trinity (CT)Nov. 16, 1895
- SeasonWesleyan (CT) in 1895
- ProgramWesleyan (CT) history and records
Brown
- Next gameat Crescent A.C.Nov. 5, 1895
- SeasonBrown in 1895
- ProgramBrown history and records
