Bowdoin vs. Exeter

Bowdoin and Exeter first met in 1898 and have played 4 times; the series is tied 2–⁠2. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–⁠2, and Exeter has won the last 2.

Bowdoin wins
2
Exeter wins
2
Ties
0
First meeting
1898
Longest streak
2 Bowdoin
Current streak
2 Exeter
Last 10 meetings
even at 2–⁠2
Most recent
1905

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s1–⁠0
1900s1–⁠2
Average margin
9.8 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Bowdoin
1–⁠0 Bowdoin’s record at home
At Exeter
2–⁠1 Exeter’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Bowdoin and Exeter, 1898 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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 Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1904 game: FOOTBALL. Exeter Defeats Bowdoin. Eleven to Nothing. Bates and Holy Cross Unable to Score. University Of Maine Defeats Brown, to 0.

    1904 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 3, 1904

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 7, 1905Exeter 11, Bowdoin 0at Exeter
Oct 1, 1904Exeter 11, Bowdoin 0at Exeter
Nov 2, 1901Bowdoin 16, Exeter 6at Bowdoin
Nov 24, 1898Bowdoin 12, Exeter 5at Exeter

Every game is listed as played on the field.