Allegheny vs. Pittsburgh

Allegheny and Pittsburgh first met in 1906 and have played 7 times; Pittsburgh leads the series 7–⁠0. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Pittsburgh 7–⁠0, and Pittsburgh has won the last 7.

Allegheny wins
0
Pittsburgh wins
7
Ties
0
First meeting
1906
Longest streak
7 Pittsburgh
Current streak
7 Pittsburgh
Last 10 meetings
Pittsburgh 7–⁠0
Most recent
1929

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠1
1910s0–⁠2
1920s0–⁠4
Average margin
41.1 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Allegheny
0–⁠1 Allegheny’s record at home
At Pittsburgh
6–⁠0 Pittsburgh’s record at home
Shutouts
5

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Pittsburgh’s biggest win1906: Pittsburgh 74, Allegheny 0by 74 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Allegheny and Pittsburgh, 1906 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The The Sunday telegram's story of the 1915 game: PITT WINS GAME Iron, Allegheny College By onesided Score ,oE.42 to 9.

    1915 · The Sunday telegram, Clarksburg, W. Va., Oct 31, 1915

  • The The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat's story of the 1916 game: Saturday Football Results

    1916 · The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat, Keokuk, Iowa, Nov 6, 1916

  • The Evening star's story of the 1929 game: PITT OVERWHELMS ALLEGHENY, 40 TO {

    1929 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 27, 1929

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Oct 26, 1929Pittsburgh 40, Allegheny 0at Allegheny
Oct 20, 1928Pittsburgh 29, Allegheny 0at Pittsburgh
Oct 29, 1927Pittsburgh 62, Allegheny 0at Pittsburgh
Sep 25, 1926Pittsburgh 9, Allegheny 7at Pittsburgh
Nov 4, 1916Pittsburgh 46, Allegheny 0at Pittsburgh
Oct 30, 1915Pittsburgh 42, Allegheny 7at Pittsburgh
Oct 13, 1906Pittsburgh 74, Allegheny 0at Pittsburgh

Every game is listed as played on the field.