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Guilford vs. Wake Forest

Guilford and Wake Forest first met in 1916 and have played 12 times; Wake Forest leads the series 11–⁠0–⁠1. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Wake Forest 9–⁠0, and Wake Forest has won the last 6.

Guilford wins
0
Wake Forest wins
11
Ties
1
First meeting
1916
Longest streak
6 Wake Forest
Current streak
6 Wake Forest
Last 10 meetings
Wake Forest 9–⁠0
Most recent
1934

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s0–⁠3
1920s0–⁠6–⁠1
1930s0–⁠2
Average margin
38.6 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Guilford
0–⁠0–⁠1 Guilford’s record at home
At Wake Forest
11–⁠0 Wake Forest’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. Wake Forest’s biggest win1924: Wake Forest 67, Guilford 0by 67 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Guilford and Wake Forest, 1916 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 Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current's story of the 1919 game: WAKE FOREST wins, $50 BACKS AND ENDS PLUNGE THROUGH GUILFORD LINE, Qunkcrr Unable to Stand Up Under Smashes and Aertel Attacks OF Bnptists.

    1919 · Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, Nov 16, 1919

  • The Henderson daily dispatch's story of the 1934 game: JACKSON AND BARWICK RETURN FOR PRACTICE

    1934 · Henderson daily dispatch, Sep 26, 1934

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 22, 1934Wake Forest 62, Guilford 0at Wake Forest
Oct 4, 1930Wake Forest 20, Guilford 0at Wake Forest
Nov 20, 1926Wake Forest 60, Guilford 0at Wake Forest
Oct 31, 1925Wake Forest 25, Guilford 0at Wake Forest
Nov 1, 1924Wake Forest 67, Guilford 0at Wake Forest
Oct 6, 1923Wake Forest 41, Guilford 0at Wake Forest
Oct 27, 1922Guilford 0, Wake Forest 0at Guilford
Oct 29, 1921Wake Forest 28, Guilford 0at Wake Forest
Oct 30, 1920Wake Forest 48, Guilford 6at Wake Forest
Nov 15, 1919Wake Forest 65, Guilford 0at Wake Forest
Oct 13, 1917Wake Forest 20, Guilford 0at Wake Forest
Oct 7, 1916Wake Forest 33, Guilford 0at Wake Forest

Every game is listed as played on the field.