Cornell vs. Hamilton
Cornell and Hamilton first met in 1898 and have played 8 times; Cornell leads the series 8–0. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Cornell 8–0, and Cornell has won the last 8. Share
- Cornell wins
- 8
- Hamilton wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1898
- Longest streak
- 8 Cornell
- Current streak
- 8 Cornell
- Last 10 meetings
- Cornell 8–0
- Most recent
- 1908
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 23.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Cornell
- 8–0 Cornell’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 8
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Cornell’s biggest win1898: Cornell 41, Hamilton 0by 41 points
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 · The sun, New York [N.Y.], Oct 9, 1904
1905 · The times dispatch, Richmond, Va., Sep 28, 1905
1906 · The Minneapolis journal, Oct 4, 1906
1907 · The evening star and Newark advertiser, Newark, N.J., Oct 3, 1907
1908 · New-York tribune, New York, Oct 4, 1908
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 3, 1908 | Cornell 11, Hamilton 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Sep 28, 1907 | Cornell 23, Hamilton 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 3, 1906 | Cornell 21, Hamilton 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Sep 27, 1905 | Cornell 5, Hamilton 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 8, 1904 | Cornell 34, Hamilton 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 9, 1901 | Cornell 39, Hamilton 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Sep 30, 1899 | Cornell 12, Hamilton 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Sep 28, 1898 | Cornell 41, Hamilton 0 | at Cornell |
Every game is listed as played on the field.