Drake vs. Morningside

Drake and Morningside have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1906; Drake leads the series 2–⁠1–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Drake 2–⁠1.

Drake wins
2
Morningside wins
1
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1906
Longest streak
1 Drake
Current streak
1 Drake
Last 10 meetings
Drake 2–⁠1
Most recent
1921

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s1–⁠0–⁠1
1920s1–⁠1
Average margin
7.3 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Morningside
1–⁠2–⁠1 Morningside’s record at home

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Drake and Morningside, 1906 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 Evening times-Republican's story of the 1907 game: Past Week Has Given Opportun- ity to Measure Capabilities of Foot Ball Squads TWO BIG GAMES THIS WEEK GrnnelI to Meet Nebraska and Ames viii Take on Minnesota Grinnel' Will Meet Defeat-Drake and NOR ninaside of Equal Strength - Foot Ball Notes. 20 T,mes-Republican.

    1907 · Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, Oct 7, 1907

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 12, 1921Drake 30, Morningside 10at Morningside
Nov 20, 1920Morningside 14, Drake 6at Morningside
Oct 5, 1907Drake 6, Morningside 5at Morningside
Nov 10, 1906Morningside 8, Drake 8at Morningside

Every game is listed as played on the field.