Princeton vs. Rutgers
Princeton and Rutgers first met in 1869 and have played 71 times; Princeton leads the series 53–17–1. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Rutgers 7–2, and Rutgers has won the last 5. Share
- Princeton wins
- 53
- Rutgers wins
- 17
- Ties
- 1
- First meeting
- 1869
- Longest streak
- 33 Princeton
- Current streak
- 5 Rutgers
- Last 10 meetings
- Rutgers 7–2
- Most recent
- 1980
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1870s | 4–0 | ||||||||||
| 1880s | 12–0 | ||||||||||
| 1890s | 7–0 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 5–0 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 4–1 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 4–2 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 7–2 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 6–4 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 3–6–1 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 18.1 points; 31 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Princeton
- 47–11–1 Princeton’s record at home
- At Rutgers
- 6–6 Rutgers’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 32
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- The first college football game1869: Rutgers 6, Princeton 4Rutgers beat Princeton in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the first intercollegiate football game.
- The 1869 game1869: Princeton 8, Rutgers 0The rematch a week later, at Princeton: Princeton won 8–0 and the two schools split the first season.
- Princeton’s biggest win1888: Princeton 82, Rutgers 0by 82 points
- Rutgers’s biggest win1980: Rutgers 44, Princeton 13by 31 points
- Upset1958: Rutgers 28, Princeton 0Rutgers had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1968: Rutgers 20, Princeton 14Rutgers had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1971: Rutgers 33, Princeton 18Rutgers had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Coach against coach
| Years | Princeton | Series | Rutgers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1933–1936 | Fritz Crisler | 3–0 | J. Wilder Tasker |
| 1946–1955 | Charles Caldwell | 7–2 | Harvey Harman |
| 1957–1959 | Richard Colman | 1–2 | John Stiegman |
| 1960–1968 | Richard Colman | 6–3 | John Bateman |
| 1969–1972 | Jake McCandless | 2–2 | John Bateman |
| 1973–1977 | Robert Casciola | 1–3–1 | Frank Burns |
| 1978–1980 | Frank Navarro | 0–3 | Frank Burns |
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Princeton’s side (Crisler 3–0 against Tasker). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
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
1883 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 28, 1883
1892 · The Jersey City news, Jersey City [N.J.], Oct 3, 1892
1894 · The Jersey City news, Jersey City [N.J.], Oct 11, 1894
1895 · The news & observer. (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, North Carolina, Oct 6, 1895
1911 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 4, 1911
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 27, 1980 | Rutgers 44, Princeton 13 | at Rutgers | ||
| Sep 29, 1979 | Rutgers 38, Princeton 14 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 30, 1978 | Rutgers 24, Princeton 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Sep 24, 1977 | Rutgers 10, Princeton 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 25, 1976 | Rutgers 17, Princeton 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 27, 1975 | Princeton 10, Rutgers 7 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 28, 1974 | Princeton 6, Rutgers 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 29, 1973 | Rutgers 39, Princeton 14 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 30, 1972 | Princeton 7, Rutgers 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 25, 1971 | Rutgers 33, Princeton 18 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 26, 1970 | Princeton 41, Rutgers 14 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 27, 1969 | Rutgers 29, Princeton 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Sep 28, 1968 | Rutgers 20, Princeton 14 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 30, 1967 | Princeton 22, Rutgers 21 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 24, 1966 | Princeton 16, Rutgers 12 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 25, 1965 | Princeton 32, Rutgers 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 26, 1964 | Princeton 10, Rutgers 7 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 28, 1963 | Princeton 24, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 29, 1962 | Princeton 15, Rutgers 7 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 30, 1961 | Rutgers 16, Princeton 13 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 24, 1960 | Rutgers 13, Princeton 8 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 26, 1959 | Rutgers 8, Princeton 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 27, 1958 | Rutgers 28, Princeton 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 28, 1957 | Princeton 7, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 29, 1956 | Princeton 28, Rutgers 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 24, 1955 | Princeton 41, Rutgers 7 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 25, 1954 | Princeton 10, Rutgers 8 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 10, 1953 | Princeton 9, Rutgers 7 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 4, 1952 | 13Princeton 61, Rutgers 19 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 7, 1950 | Princeton 34, Rutgers 28 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 29, 1949 | Princeton 34, Rutgers 14 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 16, 1948 | Rutgers 22, Princeton 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 11, 1947 | Rutgers 13, Princeton 7 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 19, 1946 | Princeton 14, Rutgers 7 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 27, 1945 | Princeton 14, Rutgers 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 26, 1940 | Princeton 28, Rutgers 13 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 5, 1938 | Rutgers 20, Princeton 18 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 23, 1937 | Princeton 6, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 10, 1936 | Princeton 20, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 19, 1935 | Princeton 29, Rutgers 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 25, 1933 | Princeton 26, Rutgers 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 2, 1915 | Princeton 10, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 26, 1914 | Princeton 12, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Sep 27, 1913 | Princeton 14, Rutgers 3 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 2, 1912 | Princeton 41, Rutgers 6 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 3, 1911 | Princeton 37, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 6, 1897 | Princeton 53, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 3, 1896 | Princeton 44, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 5, 1895 | Princeton 22, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 10, 1894 | Princeton 48, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 1, 1892 | Princeton 30, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 3, 1891 | Princeton 12, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 8, 1890 | Princeton 27, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 27, 1888 | Princeton 82, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 24, 1888 | Princeton 80, Rutgers 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 12, 1887 | Princeton 30, Rutgers 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 18, 1884 | Princeton 35, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 10, 1884 | Princeton 23, Rutgers 5 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 27, 1883 | Princeton 61, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 17, 1883 | Princeton 20, Rutgers 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 14, 1882 | Princeton 3, Rutgers 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 14, 1882 | Princeton 5, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 10, 1881 | Princeton 1, Rutgers 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 15, 1881 | Princeton 3, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 2, 1880 | Princeton 8, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 2, 1878 | Princeton 5, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 18, 1874 | Princeton 6, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 16, 1872 | Princeton 4, Rutgers 1 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 12, 1870 | Princeton 6, Rutgers 2 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 13, 1869 | Princeton 8, Rutgers 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 6, 1869 | Rutgers 6, Princeton 4 | at Rutgers |
Every game is listed as played on the field.