Cornell vs. Gettysburg

Cornell and Gettysburg first met in 1893 and have played 3 times; Cornell leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Cornell 3–⁠0, and Cornell has won the last 3.

Cornell wins
3
Gettysburg wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1893
Longest streak
3 Cornell
Current streak
3 Cornell
Last 10 meetings
Cornell 3–⁠0
Most recent
1916

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s1–⁠0
1910s2–⁠0
Average margin
18.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Cornell
3–⁠0 Cornell’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Cornell and Gettysburg, 1893 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 Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current's story of the 1915 game: CORNELL WINS ITS CAME GETTYSBURG BLANKED BY lTHACANS IN HARD FIGHT Winners PIny Mediocre Football. Fumb- ing In Front of GonI Post-Did Not Score Intil Second Period

    1915 · Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, Sep 29, 1915

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1916 game: CORNELL SHOWS STRONG ATTACK IN FIRST GAME Gettysburg Eleven Buried on Muddy Field by Score of rs to @.

    1916 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 10, 1916

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 7, 1916Cornell 26, Gettysburg 0at Cornell
Sep 25, 1915Cornell 13, Gettysburg 0at Cornell
Oct 7, 1893Cornell 16, Gettysburg 0at Cornell

Every game is listed as played on the field.