Colgate vs. Illinois

Colgate and Illinois have 2 meetings on file, the first in 1916; the series is tied 1–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 2 meetings it’s even at 1–⁠1.

Colgate wins
1
Illinois wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1916
Longest streak
1 Colgate
Current streak
1 Illinois
Last 10 meetings
even at 1–⁠1
Most recent
1957

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Colgate and Illinois, 1916 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 public ledger's story of the 1916 game: MANY SURPRISES PULLED IN SATURDAYS FOOTBALL GAMES; JOHNSON TO START TROUBLE Large Eastern Colleges Find Smaller Opponents Hard to Beat, While Colgate's Victory Over Illinois Startled Country

    1916 · Evening public ledger, Philadelphia [Pa.], Oct 16, 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 5, 1957Illinois 40, Colgate 0at Illinois
Oct 14, 1916Colgate 15, Illinois 3at Illinois

Every game is listed as played on the field.