Lafayette vs. Wyoming Seminary

Lafayette and Wyoming Seminary first met in 1896 and have played 8 times; Lafayette leads the series 8–⁠0. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Lafayette 8–⁠0, and Lafayette has won the last 8.

Lafayette wins
8
Wyoming Seminary wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1896
Longest streak
8 Lafayette
Current streak
8 Lafayette
Last 10 meetings
Lafayette 8–⁠0
Most recent
1909

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s2–⁠0
1900s6–⁠0
Average margin
24.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Lafayette
6–⁠0 Lafayette’s record at home
At Wyoming Seminary
0–⁠2 Wyoming Seminary’s record at home
Shutouts
8

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Lafayette’s biggest win1904: Lafayette 35, Wyoming Seminary 0by 35 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Lafayette and Wyoming Seminary, 1896 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 Evening star's story of the 1904 game: FOOT BALL SEASON ON. Couple Surprises in the Opening Games Saturday.

    1904 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 26, 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 2, 1909Lafayette 23, Wyoming Seminary 0at Lafayette
Sep 26, 1908Lafayette 10, Wyoming Seminary 0at Lafayette
Sep 28, 1907Lafayette 22, Wyoming Seminary 0at Lafayette
Sep 29, 1906Lafayette 34, Wyoming Seminary 0at Lafayette
Sep 30, 1905Lafayette 23, Wyoming Seminary 0at Lafayette
Sep 24, 1904Lafayette 35, Wyoming Seminary 0at Lafayette
Sep 28, 1897Lafayette 26, Wyoming Seminary 0at Wyoming Seminary
Nov 11, 1896Lafayette 23, Wyoming Seminary 0at Wyoming Seminary

Every game is listed as played on the field.