Tufts vs. Wesleyan (CT)
Tufts and Wesleyan (CT) first met in 1892 and have played 7 times; Wesleyan (CT) leads the series 5–2. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Wesleyan (CT) 5–2. Share
- Tufts wins
- 2
- Wesleyan (CT) wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1892
- Longest streak
- 4 Wesleyan (CT)
- Current streak
- 1 Wesleyan (CT)
- Last 10 meetings
- Wesleyan (CT) 5–2
- Most recent
- 1905
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 10.1 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Tufts
- 2–1 Tufts’s record at home
- At Wesleyan (CT)
- 4–0 Wesleyan (CT)‘s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Tufts’s biggest win1892: Tufts 16, Wesleyan (CT) 10by 6 points
- Wesleyan (CT)‘s biggest win1896: Wesleyan (CT) 28, Tufts 4by 24 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
1905 · New-York tribune, Nov 5, 1905
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
| Nov 4, 1905 | Wesleyan (CT) 27, Tufts 5 | at Wesleyan (CT) | ||
| Sep 28, 1901 | Tufts 5, Wesleyan (CT) 0 | at Tufts | ||
| Nov 24, 1897 | Wesleyan (CT) 6, Tufts 0 | at Wesleyan (CT) | ||
| Oct 31, 1896 | Wesleyan (CT) 28, Tufts 4 | at Tufts | ||
| Oct 26, 1895 | Wesleyan (CT) 16, Tufts 10 | at Wesleyan (CT) | ||
| Sep 30, 1893 | Wesleyan (CT) 16, Tufts 14 | at Wesleyan (CT) | ||
| Oct 19, 1892 | Tufts 16, Wesleyan (CT) 10 | at Tufts |
Every game is listed as played on the field.