Rutgers at Princeton

Saturday, October 27, 1883

Princeton beat Rutgers 61–⁠0. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 12–⁠1.

AwayRutgers1–⁠6 in 1883
0
HomePrinceton7–⁠1 in 1883
61

Final

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: PRINCETON DEFEATS RUTGERS. rBY TELEGRAPH To THE rRmUSE.I

    New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 28, 1883, page 1

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    PRINCETON DEFEATS RUTGERS. rBY TELEGRAPH To THE rRmUSE.I PRINCETON, n. j., Oct. 27.-The return game of football between tho teams of Princeton and Rutgers played here this afternoon, resulted In an other easy victory for the former There was no wind and the game was noticeable throughout for fine kicking The score at the finish Princeton. eight goals, tnreS touchdow Rutgers, nine safety touchdowns.

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)

Princeton 84% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Princeton leads 53–⁠17–⁠1 in 71 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.

Recent meetings
1980Rutgers 44, Princeton 13
1979Rutgers 38, Princeton 14
1978Rutgers 24, Princeton 0
1977Rutgers 10, Princeton 6
1976Rutgers 17, Princeton 0
1975Princeton 10, Rutgers 7

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