Colgate at Brown

Saturday, October 2, 1909

Brown beat Colgate 14–⁠0. It was their second meeting; after it, Brown led the series 2–⁠0.

AwayColgate5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1909
0
HomeBrown7–⁠3 in 1909
14

FinalHigh 62°F, low 48°F

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: BROWN BEATS COLG4TE. Mckay Makes T5cO TOuchdO5cns and Kicks Tzco Goals.

    New-York tribune, October 3, 1909, page 12

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    BROWN BEATS COLG4TE. Mckay Makes T5cO TOuchdO5cns and Kicks Tzco Goals. Providence. Oct Brown defeated Colgate at football in a fairly interesting game to-day by score Of “a TO Q. The Brown line held wen against the somewhat heavier Colgate men. The game was almost entirely a punting duel, the forward pass being used only once, and then without sue cess. and there being comparatively little rushing Mckay had the distinction OF making both touchdowns one on a e0-yard end run and the other by l0-yarG dash between end and tackle He also kicked both goals. Brown got safety in the second half when Sissor blocked a punt and The bah bounded back behind the goal line. The lineup follows:

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 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Colgate leads 25–⁠20–⁠7 in 52 meetings, counting the 50 since this game.

Recent meetings
2021Brown 31, Colgate 10
1971Colgate 42, Brown 32
1970Colgate 10, Brown 6
1969Colgate 20, Brown 6
1968Brown 27, Colgate 19
1967Brown 7, Colgate 0

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