Brown at Bowdoin

Saturday, October 24, 1891

Bowdoin beat Brown 22–⁠18. It was their first meeting; after it, Bowdoin led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayBrown4–⁠6 in 1891
18
HomeBowdoin1–⁠2 in 1891
22

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story: TABLES TURNED. Brown Whips Bowdoin at Foot Ball by Score of Is to o.

    Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., October 26, 1891, page 1

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    TABLES TURNED. Brown Whips Bowdoin at Foot Ball by Score of Is to o. PROVIDENCE. r. l.. Oct. “a The Brown men are jubilaut over their victory this afternoon One week sgo Bowdoin defeated Brown % to Is. Today Brown defeated Bovd, ,in, $50 The game com meneed at 2 80. Brown held the hall and made about 10 yard. on the v. Then BY short ru hes ,hev carried it to Boz doin’s 25-yard line. Here it Vas lost on tumble but quickly regal red ard carried forward. Tie ball soon WAS back near Bowdoin’s goal. At this poins Bartlett srasped the ball on fumbe and cou’d have u1douosedly scored Touchdown were it not for the foe tackle OF l. n lsey. Tenny was pushed over the lide scoring the first touch down; Dsawbridge kicked goal. Score Bro .n, 6; Bowdoin, 0. After the ball b ,d been takea to the centre tina was called. The second half opened suspiciously and saw the pret.iest playing Of the game. The result Of the game WAS somewhat of sur prise to the Brown men bu- the steady work Of the team is already bscomirg no. ticeable. For Brown, Estes, Lindsey, Tenny and Drsvbridge did the best work, while Bartlett, Stacey and Carlton excelled for Bowdoin. The teams lined 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 66% to win. Bowdoin pulled the upset.

Brown leads 6–⁠2 in eight meetings, counting the seven since this game.

Recent meetings
1919Brown 7, Bowdoin 0
1911Brown 33, Bowdoin 0
1908Brown 12, Bowdoin 0
1904Brown 22, Bowdoin 0
1894Brown 42, Bowdoin 0
1892Bowdoin 8, Brown 0

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