Davidson vs. Wake Forest

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

1. Davidson’s biggest win1917: Davidson 72, Wake Forest 7by 65 points
2. Wake Forest’s biggest win1939: Wake Forest 46, Davidson 7by 39 points

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Davidson’s side (Younger 0–⁠3 against Miller). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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  1912 · The Sentinel=record, Nov 29, 1912

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  1913 · Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta, Ga., Nov 28, 1913

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  1917 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 18, 1917

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  1919 · Rockingham post-dispatch, Rockingham, N.C., Oct 2, 1919

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  1921 · The Washington times, Oct 16, 1921

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Davidson vs. VMI59 meetings, Davidson 17–⁠39–⁠3
• Davidson vs. The Citadel54 meetings, Davidson 21–⁠29–⁠4
• Davidson vs. Furman48 meetings, Davidson 15–⁠33
• Davidson vs. NC State40 meetings, Davidson 8–⁠27–⁠5
• Wake Forest vs. NC State119 meetings, Wake Forest 44–⁠70–⁠5
• Wake Forest vs. North Carolina107 meetings, Wake Forest 34–⁠71–⁠2
• Wake Forest vs. Duke102 meetings, Wake Forest 40–⁠60–⁠2
• Wake Forest vs. Clemson90 meetings, Wake Forest 17–⁠72–⁠1