Chattanooga vs. Transylvania

Chattanooga and Transylvania first met in 1920 and have played 3 times; Chattanooga leads the series 2–⁠1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Chattanooga 2–⁠1, and Chattanooga has won the last 2.

Chattanooga wins
2
Transylvania wins
1
Ties
0
First meeting
1920
Longest streak
2 Chattanooga
Current streak
2 Chattanooga
Last 10 meetings
Chattanooga 2–⁠1
Most recent
1923

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s2–⁠1
Average margin
21 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Chattanooga
1–⁠0 Chattanooga’s record at home
At Transylvania
1–⁠1 Transylvania’s record at home

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 Chattanooga and Transylvania, 1920 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 Mt. Sterling advocate's story of the 1922 game: FOOTBALL RESULTS KENTUCKY

    1922 · The Mt. Sterling advocate, Kentucky, Oct 31, 1922

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 27, 1923Chattanooga 6, Transylvania 3at Transylvania
Oct 28, 1922Chattanooga 40, Transylvania 6at Chattanooga
Nov 25, 1920Transylvania 33, Chattanooga 7at Transylvania

Every game is listed as played on the field.