Rutgers vs. Ursinus
Rutgers and Ursinus first met in 1917 and have played 5 times; Rutgers leads the series 4–1. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Rutgers 4–1. Share
- Rutgers wins
- 4
- Ursinus wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1917
- Longest streak
- 3 Rutgers
- Current streak
- 1 Rutgers
- Last 10 meetings
- Rutgers 4–1
- Most recent
- 1921
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 33 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Rutgers
- 3–1 Rutgers’s record at home
- At Ursinus
- 0–1 Ursinus’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
- Rutgers’s biggest win1918: Rutgers 66, Ursinus 0by 66 points
- Ursinus’s biggest win1920: Ursinus 14, Rutgers 7by 7 points
- Upset1920: Ursinus 14, Rutgers 7Ursinus had a 10% 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
1917 · The sun, Sep 30, 1917
1918 · The sun, New York, Sep 29, 1918
1919 · The sun, New York, Sep 28, 1919
1921 · The New York herald, New York, Sep 25, 1921
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 24, 1921 | Rutgers 33, Ursinus 0 | at Ursinus | ||
| Sep 25, 1920 | Ursinus 14, Rutgers 7 | at Rutgers | ||
| Sep 27, 1919 | Rutgers 34, Ursinus 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Sep 28, 1918 | Rutgers 66, Ursinus 0 | at Rutgers | ||
| Sep 29, 1917 | Rutgers 25, Ursinus 0 | at Rutgers |
Every game is listed as played on the field.