Brown at Andover
Saturday, October 17, 1891 Share
Andover beat Brown 26–0. It was their first meeting; after it, Andover led the series 1–0.
FinalAttendance 3,000
In the newspapers

The Portland daily press, Portland, Me., October 17, 1891, page 4
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The football game to be played this after noon on the Portland grounds, between the Bowdoin and Brown University teams. promises to be very interesting and closely contested one. Last Wednesday Bowdoin was defeated by Exeter, “a to 10, and the same day Andover defeated Brown by a score of 26 to 0. As Exeter and Andover are very evenly matched, and the fact that Bow dom and Brown met their defeats by about the same score. seems to warrant an exciting game this afternoon. Bowdoin will probably, line up as 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 77% to win. Andover pulled the upset.
The series
Every Brown–Andover gameBrown leads 4–1 in five meetings, counting the four since this game.
| 1897 | Brown 20, Andover 4 | |
| 1894 | Brown 14, Andover 0 | |
| 1893 | Brown 10, Andover 0 | |
| 1892 | Brown 6, Andover 4 | |
| 1891 | Andover 26, Brown 0 |
Around this game
Brown
- Next gameat BowdoinOct. 24, 1891
- SeasonBrown in 1891
- ProgramBrown history and records
Andover
- Next gamevs. HarvardOct. 21, 1891
- SeasonAndover in 1891
- ProgramAndover history and records
