Des Moines Baptist vs. Drake
Des Moines Baptist and Drake have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1900; Drake leads the series 5–1 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Drake 5–1. Share
- Des Moines Baptist wins
- 1
- Drake wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1900
- Longest streak
- 4 Drake
- Current streak
- 1 Drake
- Last 10 meetings
- Drake 5–1
- Most recent
- 1911
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 17.5 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Des Moines Baptist
- 0–3 Des Moines Baptist’s record at home
- At Drake
- 2–1 Drake’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
- Des Moines Baptist’s biggest win1910: Des Moines Baptist 6, Drake 5by 1 points
- Drake’s biggest win1911: Drake 29, Des Moines Baptist 0by 29 points
- Upset1910: Des Moines Baptist 6, Drake 5Des Moines Baptist had a 10% 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
1910 · The Norfolk weekly news-journal, Norfolk, Neb., Oct 7, 1910
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 14, 1911 | Drake 29, Des Moines Baptist 0 | at Des Moines Baptist | ||
| Oct 1, 1910 | Des Moines Baptist 6, Drake 5 | at Drake | ||
| Oct 2, 1909 | Drake 9, Des Moines Baptist 0 | at Drake | ||
| Oct 20, 1906 | Drake 14, Des Moines Baptist 6 | at Drake | ||
| Sep 28, 1901 | Drake 29, Des Moines Baptist 0 | at Des Moines Baptist | ||
| Sep 29, 1900 | Drake 29, Des Moines Baptist 0 | at Des Moines Baptist |
Every game is listed as played on the field.