Cornell vs. St. Bonaventure

Cornell and St. Bonaventure have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1910; Cornell leads the series 7–⁠0–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Cornell 7–⁠0.

Cornell wins
7
St. Bonaventure wins
0
Ties
2
Earliest on file
1910
Longest streak
7 Cornell
Current streak
0 tie
Last 10 meetings
Cornell 7–⁠0
Most recent
1928

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠0
1920s6–⁠0–⁠2
Average margin
35.2 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Cornell
7–⁠0–⁠2 Cornell’s record at home
Shutouts
4

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Cornell’s biggest win1924: Cornell 56, St. Bonaventure 0by 56 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Cornell and St. Bonaventure, 1910 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 The New York herald's story of the 1922 game: Cornell Shows Flashes Of Power in First Game Beats St. Bonaventure by & Score of SIS to s.

    1922 · The New York herald, Oct 1, 1922

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1927 game: FOOTBALL SCORES

    1927 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 7, 1927

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 10, 1928Cornell 0, St. Bonaventure 0at Cornell
Nov 5, 1927Cornell 6, St. Bonaventure 6at Cornell
Nov 6, 1926Cornell 41, St. Bonaventure 0at Cornell
Sep 27, 1924Cornell 56, St. Bonaventure 0at Cornell
Sep 29, 1923Cornell 41, St. Bonaventure 6at Cornell
Sep 30, 1922Cornell 55, St. Bonaventure 6at Cornell
Oct 1, 1921Cornell 41, St. Bonaventure 0at Cornell
Oct 9, 1920Cornell 55, St. Bonaventure 7at Cornell
Oct 22, 1910Cornell 47, St. Bonaventure 0at Cornell

Every game is listed as played on the field.