Maine vs. Tufts
Maine and Tufts first met in 1887 and have played 7 times; Maine leads the series 4–3. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Maine 4–3. Share
- Maine wins
- 4
- Tufts wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1887
- Longest streak
- 2 Maine
- Current streak
- 1 Tufts
- Last 10 meetings
- Maine 4–3
- Most recent
- 1905
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 11.7 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Maine
- 3–0 Maine’s record at home
- At Tufts
- 3–1 Tufts’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 4
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Maine’s biggest win1904: Maine 28, Tufts 0by 28 points
- Tufts’s biggest win1901: Tufts 18, Maine 5by 13 points
- Upset1902: Maine 12, Tufts 0Maine had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1904: Maine 6, Tufts 0Maine had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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
1901 · Daily Kennebec journal, Maine, Oct 25, 1901
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 21, 1905 | Tufts 12, Maine 0 | at Tufts | ||
| Nov 12, 1904 | Maine 28, Tufts 0 | at Maine | ||
| Oct 19, 1904 | Maine 6, Tufts 0 | at Tufts | ||
| Nov 14, 1903 | Tufts 11, Maine 6 | at Tufts | ||
| Sep 27, 1902 | Maine 12, Tufts 0 | at Maine | ||
| Oct 23, 1901 | Tufts 18, Maine 5 | at Tufts | ||
| Oct 22, 1887 | Maine 12, Tufts 6 | at Maine |
Every game is listed as played on the field.