Rutgers and Washington & Jefferson first met in 1914 and have played 3 times; Washington & Jefferson leads the series 3–0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Washington & Jefferson 3–0, and Washington & Jefferson has won the last 3. Share
Rutgers won Washington & Jefferson won TieDeeper color: bigger margin
Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
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’1
’2
’3
’4
’5
’6
’7
’8
’9
W–L
1910s
0–2
1920s
0–1
Average margin
7.7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Rutgers
0–2 Rutgers’s record at home
At Washington & Jefferson
1–0 Washington & Jefferson’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
Rutgers Washington & JeffersonTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
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
1914 · Newark evening star and Newark advertiser, Newark, N.J., Nov 30, 1914
1916 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Dec 1, 1916
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.
From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited), and the Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Division (no known restrictions on publication).
