Swarthmore vs. Virginia
Swarthmore and Virginia first met in 1911 and have played 3 times; Virginia leads the series 2–1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Virginia 2–1, and Virginia has won the last 2. Share
- Swarthmore wins
- 1
- Virginia wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1911
- Longest streak
- 2 Virginia
- Current streak
- 2 Virginia
- Last 10 meetings
- Virginia 2–1
- Most recent
- 1929
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 17.7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Swarthmore
- 0–1 Swarthmore’s record at home
- At Virginia
- 1–1 Virginia’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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
1911 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 15, 1911
1914 · Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, Nov 15, 1914
1929 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 13, 1929
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 12, 1929 | Virginia 12, Swarthmore 7 | at Virginia | ||
| Nov 14, 1914 | Virginia 47, Swarthmore 0 | at Swarthmore | ||
| Oct 14, 1911 | Swarthmore 9, Virginia 8 | at Virginia |
Every game is listed as played on the field.