Fordham vs. Temple

Fordham and Temple have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1950; Fordham leads the series 5–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Fordham 5–⁠0, and Fordham has won the last 5.

Fordham wins
5
Temple wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1950
Longest streak
5 Fordham
Current streak
5 Fordham
Last 10 meetings
Fordham 5–⁠0
Most recent
2013

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s4–⁠0
2010s1–⁠0
Average margin
18 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Fordham
1–⁠0 Fordham’s record at home
At Temple
0–⁠4 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. Fordham’s biggest win1951: Fordham 35, Temple 6by 29 points
  2. Upset2013: Fordham 30, Temple 29Fordham had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsFordhamSeriesTemple
1950–⁠1953Ed Danowski4–⁠0Al Kawal

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Fordham’s side (Danowski 4–⁠0 against Kawal). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Fordham and Temple, 1950 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 1953 game: Temple 0utcIassed By Fordhanl, 20-O

    1953 · Evening star, Nov 15, 1953

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 14, 2013Fordham 30, Temple 29at Temple
Nov 14, 1953Fordham 28, Temple 0at Fordham
Nov 15, 1952Fordham 33, Temple 6at Temple
Nov 17, 1951Fordham 35, Temple 6at Temple
Nov 18, 1950Fordham 26, Temple 21at Temple

Every game is listed as played on the field.