Brown vs. Williams
Brown and Williams first met in 1891 and have played 5 times; Brown leads the series 4–1. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Brown 4–1, and Brown has won the last 4. Share
- Brown wins
- 4
- Williams wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1891
- Longest streak
- 4 Brown
- Current streak
- 4 Brown
- Last 10 meetings
- Brown 4–1
- Most recent
- 1916
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 29.2 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Brown
- 3–0 Brown’s record at home
- At Williams
- 1–1 Williams’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 4
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Brown’s biggest win1915: Brown 33, Williams 0by 33 points
- Williams’s biggest win1891: Williams 58, Brown 0by 58 points
Both programs through the years
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
1903 · The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov 2, 1903
1907 · Evening star, Oct 27, 1907
1915 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 17, 1915
1916 · The Barre daily times, Barre, Vt., Oct 23, 1916
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 21, 1916 | Brown 20, Williams 0 | at Williams | ||
| Oct 16, 1915 | Brown 33, Williams 0 | at Brown | ||
| Oct 26, 1907 | Brown 24, Williams 11 | at Brown | ||
| Oct 31, 1903 | Brown 22, Williams 0 | at Brown | ||
| Nov 14, 1891 | Williams 58, Brown 0 | at Williams |
Every game is listed as played on the field.