Boston College at Brown

Saturday, September 28, 1901

Brown beat Boston College 12–⁠0. It was their third meeting; after it, Brown led the series 3–⁠0.

AwayBoston College2–⁠7 in 1901 (1–⁠8 official)
0
HomeBrown4–⁠7–⁠1 in 1901
12

FinalHigh 72°F, low 50°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Providence news's story: Football Season Began Saturday. Brown Defeated Boston College, Schedule Of This Weeks Games.

    The Providence news, Providence [R.I.], September 30, 1901, page 3

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    Football Season Began Saturday. Brown Defeated Boston College, Schedule Of This Weeks Games. a reputation for the college. The game at Cambridge was Harvard ~ This was a foregone conclusion, but the smallness OF the score may be accounted for by the fact that the halves were only 10 minutes each. Harvard gave her ne” men a good “trying-out.” putting TWO entire elevens into the field during the game. Yale and Pennsylvania each won their games by good scores and neither OF the opposing teams were able 10 score. IL is regretted that the trouble with the faculty has forced the Columbia team TO disband temporarily, of not permanent iy Several OF the players failed to regis ter and were behind in their studies. Among the smaller games of this city the Friends school was the most important played. They defeated the Rogers High school OF Newport by the score OF “a 10 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)

Brown 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Brown leads 5–⁠0 in five meetings, counting the two since this game.

Recent meetings
1945Brown 51, Boston College 6
1917Brown 7, Boston College 2
1901Brown 12, Boston College 0
1899Brown 18, Boston College 0
1898Brown 6, Boston College 0

Around this game

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