Colgate at Brown

Saturday, October 27, 1917

Brown beat Colgate 7–⁠6. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Brown led the series 3–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayColgate4–⁠2 in 1917
6
HomeBrown8–⁠2 in 1917
7

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: BROWN DEFEATS COLGATE Brunonians Get Jump on Hamilton Boys and Win by Mar. row Margin.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 28, 1917, page 45

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    BROWN DEFEATS COLGATE Brunonians Get Jump on Hamilton Boys and Win by Mar. row Margin. PROVIDENCE, r. l.. October 27- Brown defeated Colgate here today, to 8. The Brunonians got the jump on the Hamilton boys at the start. and a pow erful line-bucking game. aided by for ward pass. gave them a touchdown early In the first period. Gordon Kick ed the goal. Colgate fought hard, but it <-as not until the third period that the eleven developed sufficient power to penetrate the Brown defense consistently. Clio and Hubbell IN this quarter tore holes In the Brown line and the former scored the touchdown Hubbeu failed to kick goal Lineup:

  • The Norwich bulletin's story: BROWN BEATS COLGATE BY LONE POINT Score to e-Misssd Goal by HubbeIi Gives Providence Team Victory.

    Norwich bulletin, October 29, 1917, page 3

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    BROWN BEATS COLGATE BY LONE POINT Score to e-Misssd Goal by HubbeIi Gives Providence Team Victory. Brown defeated Colgate At Proyi dence Saturday. ! to 6. The Brunon- !ans got the jump on the Hamilton boys at tho start and . powerful line buclxfng game aided by a forward pass gave them q touchdown early in the first period. Gordon kicked the goal Colgate fought hard but 1t was not until the third period that the eleven developed sufficient power to pene- trate the Brown defense consistently. Gil1o and Hubbell in this quarter tore holes in the Brown line and the for mer scored the touchdown. Hubbell failed to kick a goal.

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 51% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Colgate leads 25–⁠20–⁠7 in 52 meetings, counting the 47 since this game.

Recent meetings
2021Brown 31, Colgate 10
1971Colgate 42, Brown 32
1970Colgate 10, Brown 6
1969Colgate 20, Brown 6
1968Brown 27, Colgate 19
1967Brown 7, Colgate 0

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