Brown vs. Maine

Brown and Maine first met in 1904 and have played 4 times; Brown leads the series 3–⁠1. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Brown 3–⁠1, and Brown has won the last 3.

Brown wins
3
Maine wins
1
Ties
0
First meeting
1904
Longest streak
3 Brown
Current streak
3 Brown
Last 10 meetings
Brown 3–⁠1
Most recent
1920

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s2–⁠1
1920s1–⁠0
Average margin
26.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Brown
3–⁠1 Brown’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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 Brown and Maine, 1904 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 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

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1905 game: Brown Lets University Of Maine Down, 81 10 0. Amherst Repeats Last Years Score on Bowdain, 10 to 0. Yale, Harvard, PeaRsy and Princeton All win i1elr 6snGS.

    1905 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 16, 1905

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1907 game: aRowN. 40. MAINE. o.

    1907 · New-York tribune, Oct 13, 1907

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 9, 1920Brown 32, Maine 7at Brown
Oct 12, 1907Brown 40, Maine 0at Brown
Oct 14, 1905Brown 34, Maine 0at Brown
Oct 1, 1904Maine 6, Brown 0at Brown

Every game is listed as played on the field.