Centre vs. DePauw

Centre and DePauw first met in 1919 and have played 3 times; Centre leads the series 2–⁠1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Centre 2–⁠1.

Centre wins
2
DePauw wins
1
Ties
0
First meeting
1919
Longest streak
2 Centre
Current streak
1 DePauw
Last 10 meetings
Centre 2–⁠1
Most recent
2025

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠0
1920s1–⁠0
2020s0–⁠1
Average margin
37 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Centre
1–⁠1 Centre’s record at home
At DePauw
0–⁠1 DePauw’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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 Centre and DePauw, 1919 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 The public ledger's story of the 1919 game: CENTRE DEFEATS DEPAUW

    1919 · The public ledger, Maysville, Ky., Nov 24, 1919

  • The South Bend news-times's story of the 1920 game: DEPAUW SWAMPED BY CENTRE, $40 McMillin is Star of Kentuck. ians' Victory Over Hoosiers.

    1920 · South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., Nov 7, 1920

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 13, 2025DePauw 35, Centre 14at Centre
Nov 6, 1920Centre 34, DePauw 0at DePauw
Nov 22, 1919Centre 56, DePauw 0at Centre

Every game is listed as played on the field.