Lafayette vs. Pennsylvania

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

1. Lafayette’s biggest win1921: Lafayette 38, Pennsylvania 6by 32 points
2. Pennsylvania’s biggest win1893: Pennsylvania 82, Lafayette 0by 82 points
3. Upset1973: Lafayette 16, Pennsylvania 14Lafayette had a 14% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1971: Lafayette 17, Pennsylvania 15Lafayette had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1978: Lafayette 20, Pennsylvania 19Lafayette had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Lafayette’s side (Davis 1–⁠2 against Woodruff). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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  1892 · Pittsburg dispatch, Pittsburg [Pa.], Oct 27, 1892

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  1892 · The sun, New York [N.Y.], Nov 17, 1892

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  1893 · New-York tribune, New York, Oct 29, 1893

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  1895 · The news & observer. (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, North Carolina, Oct 27, 1895

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  1896 · New-York tribune, New York, Oct 25, 1896

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Lafayette vs. Lehigh88 meetings, Lafayette 46–⁠38–⁠4
• Lafayette vs. Rutgers52 meetings, Lafayette 16–⁠35–⁠1
• Lafayette vs. Colgate49 meetings, Lafayette 11–⁠35–⁠3
• Lafayette vs. Princeton45 meetings, Lafayette 3–⁠39–⁠3
• Pennsylvania vs. Cornell110 meetings, Pennsylvania 65–⁠40–⁠5
• Pennsylvania vs. Princeton95 meetings, Pennsylvania 31–⁠63–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Columbia84 meetings, Pennsylvania 61–⁠22–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Harvard74 meetings, Pennsylvania 25–⁠47–⁠2