Gallaudet vs. Lafayette

Gallaudet and Lafayette first met in 1902 and have played 3 times; Lafayette leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Lafayette 3–⁠0, and Lafayette has won the last 3.

Gallaudet wins
0
Lafayette wins
3
Ties
0
First meeting
1902
Longest streak
3 Lafayette
Current streak
3 Lafayette
Last 10 meetings
Lafayette 3–⁠0
Most recent
1904

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠3
Average margin
37.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Lafayette
3–⁠0 Lafayette’s record at home
Shutouts
3

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 Gallaudet and Lafayette, 1902 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 1902 game: THE FOOT BALL SEASON Opening Games With the Big Colleges. TWO LOCAL CONTESTS GEORGETOWN AND COLUMBIAN MEET oUT-oF-ToWN TEAMS. Gallaudet to Play at Easton, Pa Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Penn f. sylvania On the Gridiron. TWO LOCAL CONTESTS

    1902 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 27, 1902

  • The Evening star's story of the 1904 game: SATURDAYS FOOT BALL BATTLES Big Four Teams Do Well Against OPP ponentS

    1904 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 10, 1904

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 8, 1904Lafayette 53, Gallaudet 0at Lafayette
Sep 26, 1903Lafayette 36, Gallaudet 0at Lafayette
Sep 27, 1902Lafayette 23, Gallaudet 0at Lafayette

Every game is listed as played on the field.