Colgate vs. Susquehanna

Colgate and Susquehanna first met in 1915 and have played 6 times; Colgate leads the series 5–⁠0–⁠1. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Colgate 5–⁠0, and Colgate has won the last 2.

Colgate wins
5
Susquehanna wins
0
Ties
1
First meeting
1915
Longest streak
3 Colgate
Current streak
2 Colgate
Last 10 meetings
Colgate 5–⁠0
Most recent
1922

The series at a glance

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

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Colgate’s biggest win1922: Colgate 87, Susquehanna 6by 81 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Colgate and Susquehanna, 1915 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 sun's story of the 1919 game: COLGATE TRIUMPHS. SHOWS susQuehanna Under by q 81 to Score.

    1919 · The sun, New York, Oct 5, 1919

  • The The Bennington evening banner's story of the 1920 game: COLLEGE FOOTBALL . U. V. N. Eleven Badly Beaten BY Syracuse.

    1920 · The Bennington evening banner, Bennington, Vt., Oct 4, 1920

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1921 game: COLLEGE FOOTBALL SATURDAY

    1921 · Daily Kennebec journal, Maine, Oct 17, 1921

  • The The New York herald's story of the 1922 game: Colgate's 81 Points Swamp Susquehanna Sweeney Makes Spectacular Run os 90 Yards.

    1922 · The New York herald, Oct 29, 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 28, 1922Colgate 87, Susquehanna 6at Colgate
Oct 15, 1921Colgate 21, Susquehanna 6at Colgate
Oct 2, 1920Colgate 0, Susquehanna 0at Colgate
Oct 4, 1919Colgate 34, Susquehanna 7at Colgate
Sep 30, 1916Colgate 34, Susquehanna 0at Colgate
Oct 2, 1915Colgate 44, Susquehanna 0at Colgate

Every game is listed as played on the field.