Colgate at Brown
Saturday, October 12, 1940 Share
Colgate beat Brown 20–3. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Colgate led the series 12–7–4.
Final
In the newspapers

The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 13, 1940, page 1
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Colgate 20; Brown 3 PROVIDENCE, R. T., Oct. H. @-Colgate proved one thing. tocay-that a football team crushed one week by mighty Cornell can come back the next. BY winning It’s tenth straight victory in its 49, year-old series with the Brown Bear 2O-3, the Red Raiders from The Chenango also kept alive easey Andy Kerr’s mastery over browns ‘‘Tuss” McLaughry.

The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 14, 1940, page 1 (results column)
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Football Scores SATURDAY, Oct. 12, (P) - Michigan State 20-Purduc Il Columbia 20-Dartmouth Colgate 20-BroWn 3 Navy 12-Princeton 6 Fordham 20-Tulane ‘ Southern Methodisct Pitts burg ‘ Syracuse AZ New York Uni versity 13 Cornell 45-Army 0 Pennsylvania 50-Yale ‘ North Carolina 21 - Texas Christian II Holy Cross 18-Carnegie Tech 0. Michigan 26-Hardvard 0 Boston College 33-Temple 20 Nebraska 13-Indiana 2 Notre Dame-26 Georgia Tech 26. Southern Cal. 13-Illinois Ohio State 3-Northwestern 6 Mississippi 28-Georgia IA Missouri 24-Kansas State l3 Wisconsin 12-IoWa 30 West Virginia 13-Penn State IT, Auburn 7-Mississippi State ‘ Lake Forrest 0-Clemson 39 Tennessee 53-Chattanooga 0 Oklahoma 16-Texas 19 Kentucky 7-Vanderbilt T. Washington 10-Oregon 0. Gonzaga 25-Idaho 0 Washington 9-California 6 Stanford 7-Santa Clara 6 Texas A and M 7-Ucla 0

Imperial Valley press, October 13, 1940, page 1 (results column)
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FOOTBALL nv rN1TEn DpESs Penn State IT, West Virginia 13 Conn 6, Wesleyan Clemson 80, Wakeforest Coast Guard Academy 0, Rensselaer 8 Penn so. Yale 7 Michigan State 20. Purdue 7 North Carolina 81. Texas Christian ii Dartmouth 6, Columbia 20 Pitt 7, SMU 7 Case 7. Wooster 0 Brown 3. Colgate 20 Princeton 6, Navy IL LeHigh 0, Rutgers 81 Fordham co. Tulane 7 Ohio U. 20. Kalamazoo 0 Holy Cross 18. Carnegie Tech 0. NYU 13, Ohio Northern 0 Wittenberg 13, Ohio Northern 0 Ohio U. 20, Kalazamoo Thrs. 7 Cal. Frosh 20, Long Beach &c 15
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 60% to win. Colgate won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Colgate–Brown gameColgate leads 25–20–7 in 52 meetings, counting the 29 since this game.
| 2021 | Brown 31, Colgate 10 | |
| 1971 | Colgate 42, Brown 32 | |
| 1970 | Colgate 10, Brown 6 | |
| 1969 | Colgate 20, Brown 6 | |
| 1968 | Brown 27, Colgate 19 | |
| 1967 | Brown 7, Colgate 0 |
Around this game
Colgate
- Next gamevs. DukeOct. 19, 1940
- SeasonColgate in 1940
- ProgramColgate history and records
Brown
- Next gamevs. TuftsOct. 19, 1940
- SeasonBrown in 1940
- ProgramBrown history and records

