Duquesne vs. West Virginia

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

1. Duquesne’s biggest win1935: Duquesne 19, West Virginia 0by 19 points
2. West Virginia’s biggest win2023: West Virginia 56, Duquesne 17by 39 points
3. Upset1934: West Virginia 7, Duquesne 0West Virginia had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Duquesne’s side (Layden 2–⁠1 against Neale). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1931 · The Republican. (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, Maryland, Oct 1, 1931

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  1932 · The Washington times, District of Columbia, Sep 24, 1932

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  1934 · The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, North Carolina, Sep 29, 1934

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  1935 · Evening star, Nov 17, 1935

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Duquesne vs. Saint Francis20 meetings, Duquesne 15–⁠5
• Duquesne vs. Robert Morris19 meetings, Duquesne 14–⁠5
• Duquesne vs. Wagner18 meetings, Duquesne 14–⁠4
• Duquesne vs. Sacred Heart17 meetings, Duquesne 14–⁠3
• West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh101 meetings, West Virginia 37–⁠61–⁠3
• West Virginia vs. Penn State61 meetings, West Virginia 9–⁠50–⁠2
• West Virginia vs. Syracuse61 meetings, West Virginia 27–⁠34
• West Virginia vs. Virginia Tech54 meetings, West Virginia 30–⁠23–⁠1