Columbia vs. Rutgers

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

1. Columbia’s biggest win1902: Columbia 43, Rutgers 0by 43 points
2. Rutgers’s biggest win1978: Rutgers 69, Columbia 0by 69 points
3. Upset1972: Rutgers 6, Columbia 3Rutgers had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1899: Columbia 26, Rutgers 0Columbia had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1959: Columbia 26, Rutgers 16Columbia had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Columbia’s side (Little 4–⁠2 against Harman). 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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  1891 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 29, 1891

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  1899 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 4, 1899

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  1900 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 4, 1900

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  1901 · New-York tribune, Oct 3, 1901

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  1935 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 13, 1935

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.

• Columbia vs. Cornell91 meetings, Columbia 36–⁠52–⁠3
• Columbia vs. Pennsylvania84 meetings, Columbia 22–⁠61–⁠1
• Columbia vs. Yale81 meetings, Columbia 17–⁠62–⁠2
• Columbia vs. Princeton74 meetings, Columbia 12–⁠61–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Princeton71 meetings, Rutgers 17–⁠53–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lafayette52 meetings, Rutgers 35–⁠16–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lehigh51 meetings, Rutgers 24–⁠27
• Rutgers vs. Syracuse44 meetings, Rutgers 13–⁠30–⁠1