Colgate vs. St. Bonaventure

Colgate and St. Bonaventure first met in 1917 and have played 7 times; Colgate leads the series 6–⁠0–⁠1. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Colgate 6–⁠0, and Colgate has won the last 4.

Colgate wins
6
St. Bonaventure wins
0
Ties
1
First meeting
1917
Longest streak
4 Colgate
Current streak
4 Colgate
Last 10 meetings
Colgate 6–⁠0
Most recent
1937

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠0
1920s3–⁠0–⁠1
1930s2–⁠0
Average margin
43.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Colgate
6–⁠0–⁠1 Colgate’s record at home
Shutouts
5

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Colgate’s biggest win1920: Colgate 80, St. Bonaventure 0by 80 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Colgate and St. Bonaventure, 1917 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 Albuquerque morning journal's story of the 1921 game: Football Results

    1921 · Albuquerque morning journal, Albuquerque, N.M., Sep 25, 1921

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 9, 1937Colgate 34, St. Bonaventure 0at Colgate
Oct 13, 1934Colgate 62, St. Bonaventure 0at Colgate
Oct 9, 1926Colgate 44, St. Bonaventure 0at Colgate
Oct 10, 1925Colgate 49, St. Bonaventure 0at Colgate
Sep 24, 1921Colgate 7, St. Bonaventure 7at Colgate
Nov 13, 1920Colgate 80, St. Bonaventure 0at Colgate
Nov 10, 1917Colgate 40, St. Bonaventure 6at Colgate

Every game is listed as played on the field.