Centre vs. Vanderbilt

Centre and Vanderbilt have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1902; Vanderbilt leads the series 9–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Vanderbilt 9–⁠0, and Vanderbilt has won the last 9.

Centre wins
0
Vanderbilt wins
9
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1902
Longest streak
9 Vanderbilt
Current streak
9 Vanderbilt
Last 10 meetings
Vanderbilt 9–⁠0
Most recent
1942

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠2
1910s0–⁠4
1920s0–⁠2
1940s0–⁠1
Average margin
38.1 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Centre
0–⁠3 Centre’s record at home
At Vanderbilt
6–⁠0 Vanderbilt’s record at home
Shutouts
7

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Vanderbilt’s biggest win1942: Vanderbilt 66, Centre 0by 66 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Centre and Vanderbilt, 1902 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 star's story of the 1928 game: FOOT BALL RESULTS LOCAL TEAMS.

    1928 · Evening star, Nov 25, 1928

  • The Evening star's story of the 1942 game: Results of Football Games Yesterday

    1942 · Evening star, Oct 25, 1942

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 24, 1942Vanderbilt 66, Centre 0at Vanderbilt
Nov 24, 1928Vanderbilt 26, Centre 0at Vanderbilt
Oct 8, 1927Vanderbilt 53, Centre 6at Centre
Oct 17, 1914Vanderbilt 59, Centre 0at Vanderbilt
Oct 11, 1913Vanderbilt 48, Centre 0at Vanderbilt
Nov 16, 1912Vanderbilt 23, Centre 0at Vanderbilt
Oct 21, 1911Vanderbilt 45, Centre 0at Vanderbilt
Nov 19, 1904Vanderbilt 22, Centre 0at Centre
Oct 18, 1902Vanderbilt 24, Centre 17at Centre

Every game is listed as played on the field.