Brown at Williams
Saturday, October 21, 1916 Share
Brown beat Williams 20–0. It was their fifth meeting; Brown leads the series 4–1.
FinalHigh 69°F, low 48°F, 0.2 in. of rain
In the newspapers

The Barre daily times, Barre, Vt., October 23, 1916, page 2 (results column)
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UPSETS MANY IN FOOTBALL. Dartmouth Outplayed and Beaten by Georgetown Saturday. Strange things happened on the grid. iron Saturday. Syracuse and Dartmouth the teams who are soon to play in West 1 Springfield, Mass, were both set back Dartmouth was outplayed and beaten by ! Georgetown, Syracuse was bowled over by Pittsburg. Both the orange and the green were favorites before their games. Lehigh, another favorite, lost to Lebanon Valley. Springfield was too much for the weak Amherst team, and Brown for Williams. Harvard showed strength and raggedness in its scrimmage with the “Aggles.” | Pennsylvania’s victory over Penn State was unlocked for. The Quakers surprised ! themselves. Princeton mussed up Lafsy cite Union got away with Columbia and Tufts with Boston college. The results: At Springfield, Mass.-Springfeld 20, Amherst 0. At Haeerhill, Mass.-Georgetown 10, Dartmouth 0. At Cambridge, Mass.-Harvard A. “Aggies” 0. At Williamstown. Mass-Brown 20. Williams 0. At Syracuse, y. Y.-Pittsburg 30. Syracuse 0. At New York Wesleyan IA, New York university O. At Ithaca, n. Y.-Cornell 10, Buck nell 0. At Philadelphia – Pennsylvania Is, Penn State 0. At Princeton, n. Princeton 33, La fayette o. At Medford, Mass.-Tufts 10, Boston college 0. At Hamilton, y. Y.-Colgate 80, Rhode Island o. At Annapolis, Md.-Navy -, West virginia Z. At West Point, n Y-Army 80. Trim ity 0. At New York-Union 3 Columbia 0. At Lewiston. Me-Bates 6, Maine 0. At Brunswick, Me.-Colby IA, Bow doin Z. At Durham, \. H-New Hampshire L. Norwich g. At Burlington, Vt-Vermont 81, Con | necticut ~Aggies” 10. At Middlebury – Middlebury Seconds 10, Goddard 9.

The Richmond Virginian, Richmond, Va., October 22, 1916, page 14 (results column)
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FOOTBALL RESULTS Richmond College. IL, Hampdsn- Randoiph-Macon. II; william and Mary, 0. Georgia. Is: Virginia, 7. Washington and Lee. IS; Roanoke College. 0. Maryland Agsies. IL, v. M. I. - Georgia Tech. 10: North Carolina. {. Howard. 20; Mercer. Z. vanderbilt, %: Mississippi o. Alabama. Is; Florida, 0. Louisville, 8: Chattanooga, q Tulane. 40; Jefferson. 3. Kentucky. 0: Sewanee. O. Louisiana. so: Mississippi Collewa. 4 Kendall. go; Alva Normal, 0. Texas, 81: Oklahoma, 4. Tennessee. Is: South Carolina. O. Davidson, Z; Citadel, T. Hendrix, 40; Arkansas. Cumberland. Daniel Baker, Ia Trinity, 0. Arkansas. so: Roila Mines, 0. Harvard. ~: Mass. Aggies, q. princeton, 33; Lafayette, 0. Pennsylvania, Is; State, O. Cornell. 10; Bucknell. 0. Army, So; Trinity, 0. Navy. 12; West Virginia. 7 Carnegie Tech. Is; Allegheny. a Pittsburg. 80; Syracuse. o. Georgetown. 10: Dartmouth. o Union. 8; Columbia, o. Brown. 20: Williams, 0. Lebanon Valley, 8: Lehigh, 3. washington and Jefferson. III Westminster. O. Fordham. ~: susquehanna, q Bates. s; Maine, o. Gettysburg. ~: Johns Hopkins. q Dickinson, 8: Ursinus, o. Franklin and MarshaIl o. s~a,<A. more s. S Carlisle. 80: Conway, 0. Northwestern. 10; Chicago, O Illinois, 8: Ohio state. Iowa, -; Purdue, 6. IN Wisconsin. 10; Haskell Iudiana !. Minnesota, 81; South Dakota. ~ ..ssl Michigan. ,: MicAiean Asri6

New Britain herald, October 23, 1916, page 12 (results column)
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FOOTBALL RESULTS. Army 53. Trinity 0. Wesleyan IA, N. Y. U. 0. Harvard AZ, Mass. A, c. o. Princeton 33. Lafayette 0. Navy 12, West Virginia ‘. Pennsylvania 15, Penn State Pittsburgh 30. Syracuse 0. Cornell 19. Bucknell o. Bates 6, Maine 0. Georgetown 10, Dartmouth 0. Colby 14, Bowdoin 2. Brown 20. Williams 0. Carnegie 27, Allegheny 0. Fordham AZ Susquehanna 0. Union 3. Columbia 0. Denison 27. Western Re- serve 6. Dickinson 8, Ursinus 0. Washingto and Jefferson 12, Westminster 0. Ohio State 7. Illinois 6. SWarthmore 6, Franklin & Marshall 0. Rochester 14, Buffalo 2. Gettysburg 27, Johns-Hop- kins 0. Stevens 6, Worcester Tech 0. Colgate 33. Rhode Island 0. Michigan 9, Michigan A. c. 0. Northw estern 10, Chicago 0. Iowa “A, Purdue 6. Minnesota 81, So. Dakota 0. Lebanon Valley 8. Lehigh o. Gallaudet 43. Washington 0. St. Lawrence 12, Hobart 0. Muhlenburg 43, Albright 0. Kentucky 0. Sewanee 0. Springfield 20, Amherst 0. Yale Freshmen 28, Exeter ‘. New Hampshire 14. Norwich 6. Vermont 21. Conn. A. c. 10. Rensselaer, ‘, Hamilton 6. Vanderbilt 35, Mississippi 0. Georgia 13. Virginia 7.
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 80% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Brown–Williams gameBrown leads 4–1 in five meetings.
| 1916 | Brown 20, Williams 0 | |
| 1915 | Brown 33, Williams 0 | |
| 1907 | Brown 24, Williams 11 | |
| 1903 | Brown 22, Williams 0 | |
| 1891 | Williams 58, Brown 0 |
Around this game
Brown
- Next gamevs. RutgersOct. 28, 1916
- SeasonBrown in 1916
- ProgramBrown history and records
Williams
- Next gameat CornellOct. 6, 1917
- SeasonWilliams in 1916
- ProgramWilliams history and records
