Bates vs. Brown
Bates and Brown first met in 1908 and have played 5 times; Brown leads the series 5–0. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Brown 5–0, and Brown has won the last 5. Share
- Bates wins
- 0
- Brown wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1908
- Longest streak
- 5 Brown
- Current streak
- 5 Brown
- Last 10 meetings
- Brown 5–0
- Most recent
- 1926
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 24.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Brown
- 5–0 Brown’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Brown’s biggest win1925: Brown 48, Bates 0by 48 points
Both programs through the years
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
1908 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 1, 1908
1922 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Nov 13, 1922
1926 · New Britain herald, Connecticut, Oct 22, 1926
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 16, 1926 | Brown 27, Bates 14 | at Brown | ||
| Oct 17, 1925 | Brown 48, Bates 0 | at Brown | ||
| Nov 11, 1922 | Brown 27, Bates 12 | at Brown | ||
| Oct 6, 1909 | Brown 17, Bates 0 | at Brown | ||
| Sep 26, 1908 | Brown 35, Bates 4 | at Brown |
Every game is listed as played on the field.