Cornell at Williams
Saturday, November 5, 1898 Share
Cornell beat Williams 12–0. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 4–1–3.
FinalHigh 56°F, low 37°F
In the newspapers

The times, District of Columbia, November 6, 1898, page 9
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CORNELL RouTs WILLIAMS. A Game I’m Which There Was Glory Even In Defeat. Buffalo, N. Y, Nov. 5.-In one of the fiercest transforms that has visited BUT falo this Fall, Cornell and Williams fought for supremacy on the gr.diron tlis afternoon 1t was a game in which there was glory even in defeat. Cornell secured one touchdown In the first half. whi.e Williams failed to score. A large crowd witnessed the game. F’umbles were numerous because of the rain and slippery ground. II was grow ing dark and raining hard and fumbl, 5 were numerous when time was called, leaving the score u to 0.
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)
Cornell 84% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Cornell–Williams gameCornell leads 13–5–3 in 21 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.
| 1926 | Cornell 49, Williams 0 | |
| 1925 | Cornell 48, Williams 0 | |
| 1924 | Williams 14, Cornell 7 | |
| 1923 | Cornell 28, Williams 6 | |
| 1919 | Cornell 3, Williams 0 | |
| 1917 | Williams 14, Cornell 10 |
Around this game
Cornell
- Next gamevs. LafayetteNov. 12, 1898
- SeasonCornell in 1898
- ProgramCornell history and records
Williams
- Next gamevs. AmherstNov. 12, 1898
- SeasonWilliams in 1898
- ProgramWilliams history and records
