Rhode Island at Brown

Saturday, October 8, 1949

Brown beat Rhode Island 46–⁠0. It was their 35th meeting; after it, Brown led the series 34–⁠1.

AwayRhode Island0–⁠2 in 1949
0
HomeBrown8–⁠1 in 1949
46

FinalHigh 76°F, low 60°F, 0.46 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Brown Beots R. !. State, 46-0

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 9, 1949, page 46

    Read the text

    Brown Beots R. !. State, 46–⁠0 PROVIDENCE, r. l., Oct. 8 (P.- Brown University’s football force used it’s first stringers sparingly while overwhelming Rhode Island State College, As to 0. today at Brown Field.

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 95% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Brown leads 65–⁠23–⁠2 in 90 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Rhode Island 13, Brown 10
2025Brown 28, Rhode Island 21
2024Rhode Island 31, Brown 21
2023Rhode Island 34, Brown 30
2022Rhode Island 38, Brown 10
2021Rhode Island 45, Brown 24

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