Cornell vs. Tufts
Cornell and Tufts first met in 1893 and have played 4 times; the series is tied 2–2. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–2, and Cornell has won the last 2. Share
- Cornell wins
- 2
- Tufts wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1893
- Longest streak
- 2 Tufts
- Current streak
- 2 Cornell
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 2–2
- Most recent
- 1897
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 11.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Cornell
- 2–1 Cornell’s record at home
- At Tufts
- 1–0 Tufts’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 4
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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
1893 · Evening journal, Wilmington, Del., Oct 26, 1893
1897 · The Scranton tribune, Scranton, Pa., Oct 11, 1897
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 9, 1897 | Cornell 15, Tufts 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 17, 1896 | Cornell 18, Tufts 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Nov 8, 1893 | Tufts 6, Cornell 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 24, 1893 | Tufts 6, Cornell 0 | at Tufts |
Every game is listed as played on the field.