Pennsylvania vs. Rutgers

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

1. Pennsylvania’s biggest win1886: Pennsylvania 65, Rutgers 0by 65 points
2. Rutgers’s biggest win1961: Rutgers 20, Pennsylvania 6by 14 points

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Pennsylvania’s side (Stiegman 1–⁠3 against Bateman). 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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  1891 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 22, 1891

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  1934 · The Waterbury Democrat, Oct 22, 1934

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.

• Pennsylvania vs. Cornell110 meetings, Pennsylvania 65–⁠40–⁠5
• Pennsylvania vs. Princeton95 meetings, Pennsylvania 31–⁠63–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Columbia84 meetings, Pennsylvania 61–⁠22–⁠1
• Pennsylvania vs. Lafayette80 meetings, Pennsylvania 55–⁠21–⁠4
• Rutgers vs. Princeton71 meetings, Rutgers 17–⁠53–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lafayette52 meetings, Rutgers 35–⁠16–⁠1
• Rutgers vs. Lehigh51 meetings, Rutgers 24–⁠27
• Rutgers vs. Columbia49 meetings, Rutgers 23–⁠21–⁠5