Williams at Carlisle

Saturday, October 15, 1898

Carlisle beat Williams 17–⁠6. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayWilliams3–⁠8 in 1898
6
HomeCarlisle6–⁠4 in 1898
17

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The times's story: WILLIAMS WALLoPED. The Albany Boys Scalped by the Carlisle Indians.

    The times, October 16, 1898, page 9

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    WILLIAMS WALLoPED. The Albany Boys Scalped by the Carlisle Indians. Albany. N. Y, Oct. 15-The Carlisle Indians proved their superiority over the Williams College eleven on the gridiron at Ridgefield Athletic Park. in this city, today, winning by a score of II to 6. The Williams boys put up plucky defense in the first half and prevented their dusky rivals from scoring. but in the second half the Williams line weakened under the furious onslaught of the Indians and the latter had no trouble in making three touchdowns by good straight line bucking football.

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)

Carlisle 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Carlisle leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

Around this game

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