Brown vs. Colgate

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

1. Brown’s biggest win1948: Brown 35, Colgate 7by 28 points
2. Colgate’s biggest win1966: Colgate 48, Brown 7by 41 points
3. Upset1962: Brown 6, Colgate 2Brown had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1959: Colgate 33, Brown 14Colgate had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1965: Brown 6, Colgate 0Brown had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Brown’s side (Robinson 2–⁠1 against Huntington). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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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  1908 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 4, 1908

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  1909 · New-York tribune, Oct 3, 1909

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  1910 · Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Ill., Oct 10, 1910

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  1916 · New Britain herald, Connecticut, Dec 1, 1916

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  1917 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 28, 1917

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.

• 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
• Colgate vs. Cornell90 meetings, Colgate 39–⁠48–⁠3
• Colgate vs. Holy Cross67 meetings, Colgate 32–⁠30–⁠5
• Colgate vs. Syracuse61 meetings, Colgate 25–⁠32–⁠4
• Colgate vs. Bucknell55 meetings, Colgate 42–⁠13