Colgate vs. Northwestern

Northwestern won their only meeting, in 1949.

Colgate wins
0
Northwestern wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1949
Longest streak
1 Northwestern
Current streak
1 Northwestern
Last 10 meetings
Northwestern 1–⁠0
Most recent
1949

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Colgate and Northwestern, 1949 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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 1949 game: Northwestern Downs Colgate, 1870, 10 End .3-Game Losing Streak

    1949 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 13, 1949

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

Nov 12, 1949Northwestern 39, Colgate 20at Northwestern

Every game is listed as played on the field.