Macalester vs. Minnesota

Macalester and Minnesota have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1895; Minnesota leads the series 5–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Minnesota 5–⁠0, and Minnesota has won the last 5.

Macalester wins
0
Minnesota wins
5
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1895
Longest streak
5 Minnesota
Current streak
5 Minnesota
Last 10 meetings
Minnesota 5–⁠0
Most recent
1903

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s0–⁠3
1900s0–⁠2
Average margin
54.6 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Macalester
0–⁠1 Macalester’s record at home
At Minnesota
4–⁠0 Minnesota’s record at home
Shutouts
5

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Minnesota’s biggest win1903: Minnesota 112, Macalester 0by 112 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Macalester and Minnesota, 1895 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 Saint Paul globe's story of the 1903 game

    1903 · The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., Oct 1, 1903

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

Sep 30, 1903Minnesota 112, Macalester 0at Minnesota
Sep 29, 1900Minnesota 66, Macalester 0at Minnesota
Sep 30, 1899Minnesota 29, Macalester 0at Minnesota
Oct 2, 1897Minnesota 26, Macalester 0at Minnesota
Nov 2, 1895Minnesota 40, Macalester 0at Macalester

Every game is listed as played on the field.