Princeton vs. Wesleyan (CT)
Princeton and Wesleyan (CT) first met in 1883 and have played 13 times; Princeton leads the series 13–0. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Princeton 10–0, and Princeton has won the last 13. Share
- Princeton wins
- 13
- Wesleyan (CT) wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1883
- Longest streak
- 13 Princeton
- Current streak
- 13 Princeton
- Last 10 meetings
- Princeton 10–0
- Most recent
- 1907
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 57.2 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Princeton
- 11–0 Princeton’s record at home
- At Wesleyan (CT)
- 0–2 Wesleyan (CT)‘s record at home
- Shutouts
- 10
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Princeton’s biggest win1889: Princeton 98, Wesleyan (CT) 0by 98 points
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
1889 · , Nov 6, 1889
1890 · The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer, District of Columbia, Nov 16, 1890
1891 · The Sunday morning news, Nov 1, 1891
1892 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 30, 1892
1893 · The sun, New York [N.Y.], Oct 29, 1893
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 5, 1907 | Princeton 53, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 5, 1904 | Princeton 39, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 28, 1893 | Princeton 76, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 29, 1892 | Princeton 60, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 31, 1891 | Princeton 73, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 15, 1890 | Princeton 46, Wesleyan (CT) 4 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 2, 1889 | Princeton 98, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Wesleyan (CT) | ||
| Nov 6, 1888 | Princeton 44, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 29, 1887 | Princeton 69, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 20, 1886 | Princeton 76, Wesleyan (CT) 6 | at Wesleyan (CT) | ||
| Nov 14, 1885 | Princeton 76, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 15, 1884 | Princeton 22, Wesleyan (CT) 2 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 6, 1883 | Princeton 24, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Princeton |
Every game is listed as played on the field.