Colgate vs. Williams

Colgate and Williams have 10 meetings on file, the first in 1895; Williams leads the series 8–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Williams 8–⁠2, and Williams has won the last 2.

Colgate wins
2
Williams wins
8
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1895
Longest streak
4 Williams
Current streak
2 Williams
Last 10 meetings
Williams 8–⁠2
Most recent
1906

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s1–⁠3
1900s1–⁠5
Average margin
12.2 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Colgate
0–⁠1 Colgate’s record at home
At Williams
7–⁠2 Williams’s record at home
Shutouts
7

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Colgate’s biggest win1897: Colgate 18, Williams 0by 18 points
  2. Williams’s biggest win1901: Williams 29, Colgate 0by 29 points
  3. Upset1896: Williams 4, Colgate 0Williams had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1895: Williams 30, Colgate 6Williams had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Colgate and Williams, 1895 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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 New-York tribune's story of the 1904 game: COLGATE JUST WINS FROM WILLIAMS.

    1904 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 6, 1904

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 3, 1906Williams 23, Colgate 9at Williams
Nov 11, 1905Williams 5, Colgate 0at Williams
Nov 5, 1904Colgate 6, Williams 0at Williams
Nov 14, 1903Williams 6, Colgate 0at Williams
Nov 8, 1902Williams 16, Colgate 5at Williams
Oct 12, 1901Williams 29, Colgate 0at Williams
Oct 1, 1898Williams 5, Colgate 0at Williams
Oct 16, 1897Colgate 18, Williams 0at Williams
Oct 24, 1896Williams 4, Colgate 0at Colgate
Oct 5, 1895Williams 30, Colgate 6at Williams

Every game is listed as played on the field.