Lafayette vs. Manhattan

Lafayette and Manhattan have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1900; Lafayette leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Lafayette 4–⁠0, and Lafayette has won the last 4.

Lafayette wins
4
Manhattan wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1900
Longest streak
4 Lafayette
Current streak
4 Lafayette
Last 10 meetings
Lafayette 4–⁠0
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
1900s4–⁠0
Average margin
27 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Lafayette
4–⁠0 Lafayette’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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 Lafayette and Manhattan, 1900 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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 The sun's story of the 1904 game: ROUTED BY LAFAYETTE. yictors Make Many Long RUM Against the Manhattan Team.

    1904 · The sun, New York [N.Y.], Oct 30, 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 29, 1904Lafayette 54, Manhattan 0at Lafayette
Oct 18, 1902Lafayette 38, Manhattan 5at Lafayette
Oct 16, 1901Lafayette 16, Manhattan 6at Lafayette
Oct 10, 1900Lafayette 11, Manhattan 0at Lafayette

Every game is listed as played on the field.