Bowdoin vs. Brown

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

1. Bowdoin’s biggest win1892: Bowdoin 8, Brown 0by 8 points
2. Brown’s biggest win1894: Brown 42, Bowdoin 0by 42 points
3. Upset1892: Bowdoin 8, Brown 0Bowdoin had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1891: Bowdoin 22, Brown 18Bowdoin had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

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.

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  1891 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 26, 1891

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  1892 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Nov 12, 1892

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  1904 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 26, 1904

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  1911 · East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, Oregon, Oct 16, 1911

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  1919 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 6, 1919

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Bowdoin vs. Harvard17 meetings, Bowdoin 0–⁠17
• Bowdoin vs. Tufts16 meetings, Bowdoin 6–⁠10
• Bowdoin vs. Amherst13 meetings, Bowdoin 2–⁠10–⁠1
• Bowdoin vs. Colby13 meetings, Bowdoin 8–⁠4–⁠1
• Brown vs. Yale108 meetings, Brown 25–⁠79–⁠4
• Brown vs. Harvard104 meetings, Brown 24–⁠78–⁠2
• Brown vs. Rhode Island90 meetings, Brown 65–⁠23–⁠2
• Brown vs. Dartmouth81 meetings, Brown 24–⁠54–⁠3