Duquesne vs. Wake Forest

Duquesne and Wake Forest have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1947; Wake Forest leads the series 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Wake Forest 3–⁠0, and Wake Forest has won the last 3.

Duquesne wins
0
Wake Forest wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1947
Longest streak
3 Wake Forest
Current streak
3 Wake Forest
Last 10 meetings
Wake Forest 3–⁠0
Most recent
1949

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠3
Average margin
24.7 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Duquesne
0–⁠1 Duquesne’s record at home
At Wake Forest
2–⁠0 Wake Forest’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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 Duquesne and Wake Forest, 1947 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 Evening star's story of the 1949 game: Wake Forest Defeats Duquesne, II 10 l., As Sophs Star

    1949 · Evening star, Sep 18, 1949

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 17, 1949Wake Forest 22, Duquesne 7at Wake Forest
Oct 16, 1948Wake Forest 41, Duquesne 15at Duquesne
Nov 21, 1947Wake Forest 33, Duquesne 0at Wake Forest

Every game is listed as played on the field.