Drake vs. Temple

Drake and Temple have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1929; Temple leads the series 8–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Temple 8–⁠1, and Temple has won the last 7.

Drake wins
1
Temple wins
8
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1929
Longest streak
7 Temple
Current streak
7 Temple
Last 10 meetings
Temple 8–⁠1
Most recent
1979

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s0–⁠1
1930s1–⁠1
1970s0–⁠6
Average margin
21.6 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Drake
0–⁠3 Drake’s record at home
At Temple
5–⁠1 Temple’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Drake’s biggest win1930: Drake 49, Temple 20by 29 points
  2. Temple’s biggest win1977: Temple 42, Drake 0by 42 points

Coach against coach

YearsDrakeSeriesTemple
1973–⁠1976Jack Wallace0–⁠3Wayne Hardin
1977–⁠1979Chuck Shelton0–⁠3Wayne Hardin

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Drake and Temple, 1929 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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 star's story of the 1929 game: TEMPLE WINS DUEL WITH DRAKE 1914

    1929 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 24, 1929

  • The Evening star's story of the 1930 game: DRAKE j. CONQUERS. TEMPLE, 49 TO 70. Westerners Score in Every Period, With Passes and Running Effective.

    1930 · Evening star, Nov 30, 1930

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 15, 1979Temple 43, Drake 21at Temple
Sep 16, 1978Temple 36, Drake 29at Drake
Sep 17, 1977Temple 42, Drake 0at Temple
Nov 6, 1976Temple 31, Drake 7at Drake
Nov 22, 1975Temple 44, Drake 7at Temple
Nov 17, 1973Temple 35, Drake 10at Drake
Nov 4, 1933Temple 20, Drake 14at Temple
Nov 29, 1930Drake 49, Temple 20at Temple
Nov 23, 1929Temple 16, Drake 14at Temple

Every game is listed as played on the field.