Lafayette vs. Rutgers

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

1. Lafayette’s biggest win1899: Lafayette 57, Rutgers 0by 57 points
2. Rutgers’s biggest win1963: Rutgers 49, Lafayette 0by 49 points
3. Upset1965: Lafayette 23, Rutgers 18Lafayette had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1971: Lafayette 13, Rutgers 7Lafayette had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1892: Lafayette 24, Rutgers 10Lafayette had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Lafayette’s side (Sutherland 2–⁠0–⁠1 against Sanford). 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 16, 1892

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  1894 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 7, 1894

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  1895 · New-York tribune, Oct 31, 1895

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  1917 · New-York tribune, Oct 21, 1917

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  1921 · The New York herald, Oct 30, 1921

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. Pennsylvania80 meetings, Lafayette 21–⁠55–⁠4
• Lafayette vs. Colgate49 meetings, Lafayette 11–⁠35–⁠3
• Lafayette vs. Princeton45 meetings, Lafayette 3–⁠39–⁠3
• Rutgers vs. Princeton71 meetings, Rutgers 17–⁠53–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lehigh51 meetings, Rutgers 24–⁠27
• Rutgers vs. Columbia49 meetings, Rutgers 23–⁠21–⁠5
• Rutgers vs. Syracuse44 meetings, Rutgers 13–⁠30–⁠1