Ursinus vs. Villanova

Ursinus and Villanova first met in 1906 and have played 5 times; Villanova leads the series 4–⁠0–⁠1. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Villanova 4–⁠0, and Villanova has won the last 2.

Ursinus wins
0
Villanova wins
4
Ties
1
First meeting
1906
Longest streak
2 Villanova
Current streak
2 Villanova
Last 10 meetings
Villanova 4–⁠0
Most recent
1935

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠1
1930s0–⁠3–⁠1
Average margin
25 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Ursinus
0–⁠1 Ursinus’s record at home
At Villanova
3–⁠0–⁠1 Villanova’s record at home
Shutouts
3

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Villanova’s biggest win1934: Villanova 35, Ursinus 0by 35 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Ursinus and Villanova, 1906 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1935 game: Football Scores of Sat. Ganles

    1935 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Sep 30, 1935

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 28, 1935Villanova 31, Ursinus 0at Villanova
Sep 29, 1934Villanova 35, Ursinus 0at Villanova
Sep 30, 1933Villanova 7, Ursinus 7at Villanova
Sep 24, 1932Villanova 26, Ursinus 2at Villanova
Nov 3, 1906Villanova 35, Ursinus 0at Ursinus

Every game is listed as played on the field.