Bucknell vs. Delaware

Bucknell and Delaware have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1908; Delaware leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Delaware 2–⁠1, and Delaware has won the last 2.

Scheduled 2029 at Delaware Sept. 8. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Bucknell wins
1
Delaware wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1908
Longest streak
2 Delaware
Current streak
2 Delaware
Last 10 meetings
Delaware 2–⁠1
Most recent
2012

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s1–⁠0
1940s0–⁠1
2010s0–⁠1
Average margin
14 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Bucknell
0–⁠1 Bucknell’s record at home
At Delaware
1–⁠1 Delaware’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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 Bucknell and Delaware, 1908 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 Evening journal's story of the 1908 game: DELAWARE LOSES TOBUCKNELL TEAM Newark Eleven Surprises the PennSylVanianS With Its AII-aFOund Playing

    1908 · Evening journal, Delaware, Oct 19, 1908

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

Sep 15, 2012Delaware 19, Bucknell 3at Delaware
Nov 9, 1946Delaware 27, Bucknell 14at Bucknell
Oct 17, 1908Bucknell 13, Delaware 0at Delaware

Every game is listed as played on the field.