Exeter vs. Harvard

Exeter and Harvard have 11 meetings on file, the first in 1886; Harvard leads the series 11–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Harvard 10–⁠0, and Harvard has won the last 11.

Exeter wins
0
Harvard wins
11
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1886
Longest streak
11 Harvard
Current streak
11 Harvard
Last 10 meetings
Harvard 10–⁠0
Most recent
1895

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1880s0–⁠5
1890s0–⁠6
Average margin
54.2 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Exeter
0–⁠3 Exeter’s record at home
At Harvard
8–⁠0 Harvard’s record at home
Shutouts
10

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Harvard’s biggest win1886: Harvard 158, Exeter 0by 158 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Exeter and Harvard, 1886 on1300150017001890189519001905

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 New-York tribune's story of the 1892 game: HARVARD DEFEATS Phillips EXETER.

    1892 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 6, 1892

  • The The herald's story of the 1895 game: BEFORE THE GRAND STAND A Days Races and the Horses That Won JOE PATCHEN'S VICTORY The Running Races at the Bay District Track Tic Harvard Footballers Mop the Earth With the Exeter nen-YaIe Beats Amherst-SportingN Notes

    1895 · The herald, Los Angeles [Calif.], Oct 10, 1895

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

Oct 9, 1895Harvard 42, Exeter 0at Harvard
Oct 3, 1894Harvard 48, Exeter 0at Harvard
Oct 4, 1893Harvard 54, Exeter 0at Harvard
Oct 5, 1892Harvard 62, Exeter 0at Harvard
Oct 7, 1891Harvard 17, Exeter 0at Harvard
Oct 4, 1890Harvard 41, Exeter 0at Harvard
Oct 2, 1889Harvard 28, Exeter 0at Harvard
Oct 10, 1888Harvard 30, Exeter 6at Exeter
Nov 2, 1887Harvard 54, Exeter 0at Harvard
Oct 5, 1887Harvard 68, Exeter 0at Exeter
Nov 3, 1886Harvard 158, Exeter 0at Exeter

Every game is listed as played on the field.