Rhode Island at Colgate
Saturday, October 21, 1916 Share
Colgate beat Rhode Island 33–0. It was their only meeting on record.
Final
In the newspapers

New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 22, 1916, page 20
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Colgate Eleven Wins Easily Hamilton, n. Y, Oct. 2l.-Colgate easily defeated Rhode Island State Col lege at football here to-day. The score was 33 to 0. A substitute eleven faced the visitors after the first period, when the Maroon ran up twenty-point lead. Anderson, at quarter for Colgate, ran back a punt eighty yards for touch

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)
Colgate 96% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Rhode Island–Colgate gameColgate leads 1–0 in their only meeting.
Around this game
Rhode Island
- Next gameat BrownSept. 29, 1917
- SeasonRhode Island in 1916
- ProgramRhode Island history and records
Colgate
- Next gamevs. SpringfieldOct. 28, 1916
- SeasonColgate in 1916
- ProgramColgate history and records

