Brown at Andover

Saturday, October 17, 1891

Andover beat Brown 26–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Andover led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayBrown4–⁠6 in 1891
0
HomeAndover1–⁠3 in 1891
26

FinalAttendance 3,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Portland daily press's story

    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.

Brown leads 4–⁠1 in five meetings, counting the four since this game.

Recent meetings
1897Brown 20, Andover 4
1894Brown 14, Andover 0
1893Brown 10, Andover 0
1892Brown 6, Andover 4
1891Andover 26, Brown 0

Around this game

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