Rutgers at Brown

Saturday, October 28, 1916

Brown beat Rutgers 21–⁠3. It was their first meeting; after it, Brown led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayRutgers3–⁠2–⁠2 in 1916
3
HomeBrown8–⁠1 in 1916
21

FinalHigh 61°F, low 45°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening public ledger's story: BEFORE AWARDING FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TO PITT TEAM, DO NOT OVERLOOK BROWN Wonderful New England Aggregation, Still Un- defeated, Has Beaten Rutgers and Meets Yale, Harvard and Syracuse

    Evening public ledger, Philadelphia [Pa.], October 30, 1916, page 9

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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 57% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Rutgers leads 6–⁠5 in 11 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.

Recent meetings
1955Rutgers 14, Brown 12
1953Brown 27, Rutgers 20
1952Rutgers 19, Brown 7
1951Rutgers 28, Brown 21
1950Rutgers 15, Brown 12
1948Brown 20, Rutgers 6

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