Colgate vs. Penn State

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

1. Colgate’s biggest win1930: Colgate 40, Penn State 0by 40 points
2. Penn State’s biggest win1947: Penn State 46, Colgate 0by 46 points

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Colgate’s side (Kerr 4–⁠4–⁠1 against Higgins). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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  1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 26, 1930

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  1941 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 5, 1941

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  1942 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 26, 1942

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  1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 28, 1946

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  1947 · The Wilmington morning star, Nov 3, 1947

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Colgate vs. Cornell90 meetings, Colgate 39–⁠48–⁠3
• Colgate vs. Holy Cross67 meetings, Colgate 32–⁠30–⁠5
• Colgate vs. Syracuse61 meetings, Colgate 25–⁠32–⁠4
• Colgate vs. Bucknell55 meetings, Colgate 42–⁠13
• Penn State vs. Pittsburgh99 meetings, Penn State 52–⁠43–⁠4
• Penn State vs. Syracuse71 meetings, Penn State 43–⁠23–⁠5
• Penn State vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Penn State 50–⁠9–⁠2
• Penn State vs. Maryland48 meetings, Penn State 44–⁠3–⁠1