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. Share
- 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
- 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
- Colgate’s biggest win1897: Colgate 18, Williams 0by 18 points
- Williams’s biggest win1901: Williams 29, Colgate 0by 29 points
- Upset1896: Williams 4, Colgate 0Williams had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1895: Williams 30, Colgate 6Williams had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Both programs through the years
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

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, 1906 | Williams 23, Colgate 9 | at Williams | ||
| Nov 11, 1905 | Williams 5, Colgate 0 | at Williams | ||
| Nov 5, 1904 | Colgate 6, Williams 0 | at Williams | ||
| Nov 14, 1903 | Williams 6, Colgate 0 | at Williams | ||
| Nov 8, 1902 | Williams 16, Colgate 5 | at Williams | ||
| Oct 12, 1901 | Williams 29, Colgate 0 | at Williams | ||
| Oct 1, 1898 | Williams 5, Colgate 0 | at Williams | ||
| Oct 16, 1897 | Colgate 18, Williams 0 | at Williams | ||
| Oct 24, 1896 | Williams 4, Colgate 0 | at Colgate | ||
| Oct 5, 1895 | Williams 30, Colgate 6 | at Williams |
Every game is listed as played on the field.