Brown vs. Massachusetts

Brown and Massachusetts have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1904; Brown leads the series 7–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Brown 7–⁠0, and Brown has won the last 7.

Brown wins
7
Massachusetts wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1904
Longest streak
7 Brown
Current streak
7 Brown
Last 10 meetings
Brown 7–⁠0
Most recent
1911

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s5–⁠0
1910s2–⁠0
Average margin
22.4 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Brown
7–⁠0 Brown’s record at home
Shutouts
6

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Brown’s biggest win1910: Brown 49, Massachusetts 0by 49 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Brown and Massachusetts, 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 New-York tribune's story of the 1911 game: BROWN PILES UP,SCORE Beats Massachusetts, AgriCuIt- uraI College Easily.

    1911 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 8, 1911

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, 1911Brown 26, Massachusetts 0at Brown
Nov 19, 1910Brown 49, Massachusetts 0at Brown
Oct 30, 1909Brown 12, Massachusetts 3at Brown
Sep 28, 1907Brown 5, Massachusetts 0at Brown
Oct 10, 1906Brown 17, Massachusetts 0at Brown
Sep 27, 1905Brown 24, Massachusetts 0at Brown
Oct 8, 1904Brown 27, Massachusetts 0at Brown

Every game is listed as played on the field.