Drake vs. St. Ambrose

Drake and St. Ambrose have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1941; Drake leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Drake 2–⁠1.

Drake wins
2
St. Ambrose wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1941
Longest streak
1 Drake
Current streak
1 Drake
Last 10 meetings
Drake 2–⁠1
Most recent
1946

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s2–⁠1
Average margin
11.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Drake
2–⁠1 Drake’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 St. Ambrose, 1941 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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 Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1941 game: Grid Games On Saturday

    1941 · The Daily Alaska empire, Sep 22, 1941

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1946 game: FOOTBALL :. SCORES

    1946 · The Daily Alaska empire, Sep 21, 1946

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

Sep 21, 1946Drake 26, St. Ambrose 13at Drake
Sep 26, 1942St. Ambrose 12, Drake 6at Drake
Sep 20, 1941Drake 21, St. Ambrose 6at Drake

Every game is listed as played on the field.