Cornell vs. Oberlin
Cornell and Oberlin first met in 1898 and have played 15 times; Cornell leads the series 13–1–1. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Cornell 8–1, and Cornell has won the last 4. Share
- Cornell wins
- 13
- Oberlin wins
- 1
- Ties
- 1
- First meeting
- 1898
- Longest streak
- 8 Cornell
- Current streak
- 4 Cornell
- Last 10 meetings
- Cornell 8–1
- Most recent
- 1919
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 19.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Cornell
- 13–1–1 Cornell’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
- Cornell’s biggest win1902: Cornell 57, Oberlin 0by 57 points
- Oberlin’s biggest win1912: Oberlin 13, Cornell 0by 13 points
- Upset1912: Oberlin 13, Cornell 0Oberlin had a 11% 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
1898 · The daily morning journal and courier, Oct 31, 1898
1900 · The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., Nov 11, 1900
1901 · The San Francisco call, Oct 27, 1901
1902 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 26, 1902
1906 · The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., Oct 7, 1906
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 4, 1919 | Cornell 9, Oberlin 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Sep 29, 1917 | Cornell 22, Oberlin 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 2, 1915 | Cornell 34, Oberlin 7 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 4, 1913 | Cornell 37, Oberlin 12 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 5, 1912 | Oberlin 13, Cornell 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 7, 1911 | Cornell 15, Oberlin 3 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 15, 1910 | Cornell 0, Oberlin 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 9, 1909 | Cornell 16, Oberlin 6 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 10, 1908 | Cornell 23, Oberlin 10 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 2, 1907 | Cornell 22, Oberlin 5 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 6, 1906 | Cornell 25, Oberlin 5 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 25, 1902 | Cornell 57, Oberlin 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 26, 1901 | Cornell 29, Oberlin 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Nov 10, 1900 | Cornell 29, Oberlin 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 29, 1898 | Cornell 6, Oberlin 0 | at Cornell |
Every game is listed as played on the field.