Lafayette vs. Wesleyan (CT)
Lafayette and Wesleyan (CT) first met in 1886 and have played 3 times; Lafayette leads the series 2–1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Lafayette 2–1, and Lafayette has won the last 2. Share
- Lafayette wins
- 2
- Wesleyan (CT) wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1886
- Longest streak
- 2 Lafayette
- Current streak
- 2 Lafayette
- Last 10 meetings
- Lafayette 2–1
- Most recent
- 1897
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 26.3 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Lafayette
- 2–0 Lafayette’s record at home
- At Wesleyan (CT)
- 1–0 Wesleyan (CT)‘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
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
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
| Nov 20, 1897 | Lafayette 41, Wesleyan (CT) 6 | at Lafayette | ||
| Nov 21, 1896 | Lafayette 18, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Lafayette | ||
| Nov 13, 1886 | Wesleyan (CT) 26, Lafayette 0 | at Wesleyan (CT) |
Every game is listed as played on the field.