Richmond vs. Rutgers
Richmond and Rutgers have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1923; Rutgers leads the series 6–0–1 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Rutgers 6–0, and Rutgers has won the last 5. Share
- Richmond wins
- 0
- Rutgers wins
- 6
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1923
- Longest streak
- 5 Rutgers
- Current streak
- 5 Rutgers
- Last 10 meetings
- Rutgers 6–0
- Most recent
- 1998
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 0–0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 12.9 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Richmond
- 0–1 Richmond’s record at home
- At Rutgers
- 5–0–1 Rutgers’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Rutgers’s biggest win1923: Rutgers 56, Richmond 0by 56 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

1923 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 11, 1923
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 5, 1998 | Rutgers 7, Richmond 6 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 26, 1985 | Rutgers 20, Richmond 17 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 30, 1982 | Rutgers 20, Richmond 14 | at Richmond | ||
| Oct 11, 1958 | Rutgers 23, Richmond 12 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 26, 1957 | Rutgers 26, Richmond 13 | at Rutgers | ||
| Oct 14, 1939 | Rutgers 6, Richmond 6 | at Rutgers | ||
| Nov 10, 1923 | Rutgers 56, Richmond 0 | at Rutgers |
Every game is listed as played on the field.