Brown Bears
IvyProvidence, RIBrown Stadium
2026: 2–3 (0–2 Ivy). Last: lost at Princeton 16–10. Next: Cornell, Saturday, Oct 24, noon ET.
- W 17–10at New Haven
- L 10–14Harvard
- L 10–13at Rhode Island
- W 28–13Bryant
- L 10–16at Princeton
- Oct 24Cornell
- Oct 31Pennsylvania
- Nov 7at Yale
- Nov 14Columbia
- Nov 21at Dartmouth
Brown has played football since at least 1878 and is 538–516–35 in the 1,089 games on record. They have won four Ivy League titles (the last in 2008), counting shared titles. Since 1940, the NFL Draft has taken 13 players from here in its first seven rounds, 0 of them in the first round. The AAFC draft also took one player from here. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 2 players and 3 coaches from Brown. Edward Robinson (1898–1925) won more games here than any other coach: 140. The most-played rival is Yale: 108 meetings, Yale leads 79–25–4. This season, they’re 2–3.
Résumé
- All-time record
- 633–626–40 official; 538–516–35 on file; how we count
- Postseason
- 0–1 matches the official bowl record
- AP No. 1 finishes
- 0
- Weeks at No. 1
- 0 of 0 ranked
- Elo now
- 1284
- Computer rankings
- Massey No. 66 · Composite No. 44 in FCS, Oct 17; down 1 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
- Conference titles
- 4 last in 2008
- Seasons
- 120 since 1878, 1,089 games
Identity
- Fight song
- Ever True
- Band
- Brown University Band since 1924, about 50 members
2026 season 2–3
RosterFull 2026 season| Date | Opponent | Result | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19 | at New Haven | W 17–10 | 54% |
| Sep 25 | vs Harvard | L 10–14 | 37% |
| Oct 3 | at Rhode Island | L 10–13 | 33% |
| Oct 10 | vs Bryant | W 28–13 | 57% |
| Oct 17 | at Princeton | L 10–16 | 36% |
| Oct 24 | vs Cornell | Preview | 50% |
| Oct 31 | vs Pennsylvania | Preview | 54% |
| Nov 7 | at Yale | Preview | 28% |
| Nov 14 | vs Columbia | Preview | 55% |
| Nov 21 | at Dartmouth | Preview | 35% |
Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.
This season, game by game
On the 2026 team
- Matt Childs279 rushing yards, 4 TD (leads Brown in passing touchdowns)
- Max Malo69 tackles, 1 INT (leads Brown in tackles)
- James Murphy1,207 passing yards (leads Brown in passing yards)
- Stefano Montella54 tackles
- Camryn Williams-Dalton27 tackles, 2 INT (leads Brown in interceptions)
- Liam Fitzgerald18 tackles, 2.5 sacks
Program greats See all
Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Brown.
Fritz PollardHall of Fame, 1954- Bill SpracklingHall of Fame, 1964
- Earl SpracklingConsensus All-American, 1910–11
Thomas A. BarryConsensus All-American, 1902- George CrowtherConsensus All-American, 1912
- Adrian RegnierConsensus All-American, 1909
- John W. MayhewConsensus All-American, 1906
Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
Program strength since 1878
Best seasons everHead coaches
| Coach | Years | Record |
|---|---|---|
| John Anderson | 1973–1981 | 51–29–2 |
| Len Jardine | 1967–1972 | 9–44–1 |
| John McLaughry | 1959–1966 | 17–51–3 |
| Alva Kelley | 1951–1958 | 31–39–2 |
| Gus Zitrides | 1950 | 1–8 |
| Rip Engle | 1944–1949 | 28–20–4 |
| Skip Stahley | 1941–1943 | 14–11 |
 DeOrmond McLaughry | 1926–1940 | 76–58–5 |
| Edward Robinson | 1898–1925 | 140–82–12 |
| J.A. Gammons | 1902–1909 | 17–10–2 |
| Dave Fultz | 1903 | 5–4–1 |
| Wallace Moyle | 1895–1897 | 18–15–2 |
| William G. Norton | 1894 | 10–5 |
| William Odlin | 1893 | 6–3 |
| Charles P. Howland | 1892 | 4–5–1 |
Most-played series
All rivalries- Yale
25–79–4 in 108
- 2015 L 14–41
- 2016 W 27–22
- 2017 L 7–34
- 2018 L 16–46
- 2019 L 35–59
- 2021 L 38–63
- 2022 L 17–69
- 2023 L 17–36
- 2024 L 34–56
- 2025 L 22–34
Lost the last eight.
Next: Nov 7
- Harvard
24–78–2 in 104
- 2016 L 22–32
- 2017 L 28–45
- 2018 L 17–31
- 2019 L 7–42
- 2021 L 17–49
- 2022 L 28–35
- 2023 L 31–34
- 2024 W 31–28
- 2025 L 7–41
- 2026 L 10–14
Lost the last two.
- Rhode Island
65–23–2 in 90
- 2016 L 13–28
- 2017 W 24–21
- 2018 L 0–48
- 2019 L 28–31
- 2021 L 24–45
- 2022 L 10–38
- 2023 L 30–34
- 2024 L 21–31
- 2025 W 28–21
- 2026 L 10–13
Lost the last one.
| Opponent | Games | BRWN record |
|---|---|---|
| Yale | 108 | 25–79–4 |
| Harvard | 104 | 24–78–2 |
| Rhode Island | 90 | 65–23–2 |
| Dartmouth | 81 | 24–54–3 |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | 21–50–1 |
| Princeton | 71 | 22–49 |
| Columbia | 68 | 37–29–2 |
| Colgate | 52 | 20–25–7 |
Rivals the program names: Rhode Island.
Every opponent (82)
Every program Brown has played, A to Z, with Brown’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.
- Albright 1–0
- Amherst 6–4–1
- Andover 4–1
- Army 2–6
- Bates 5–0
- Boston A.C. 1–1
- Boston College 5–0
- Boston University 7–0–1
- Bowdoin 6–2
- Bryant 8–3
- Bucknell 0–1
- Cal Poly 0–1
- Camp Adams 1–0
- Camp Devens 1–1
- Camp Kilmer 1–0
- Campello 1–0
- Canisius 1–0
- Carlisle 6–3
- Central Connecticut 2–0
- Chicago 1–2
- Coast Guard 2–1
- Colby 16–1
- Colgate 20–25–7
- Columbia 37–29–2
- Cornell 26–23–1
- Crescent A.C. 0–1
- Dartmouth 24–54–3
- Dayton 1–0
- Duquesne 1–0
- Fall River 2–0
- Fordham 2–1
- Georgetown 7–1
- Harvard 24–78–2
- Haskell 0–1
- Haverford 1–0
- Holy Cross 23–24–2
- Homestead A.C. 0–1
- Johns Hopkins 1–0
- Lafayette 5–3
- League Island Navy 0–1
- Lebanon Valley 0–1
- Lehigh 7–1
- Maine 3–1
- Manhattan 1–0
- Massachusetts 7–0
- MIT 8–5
- Navy Reserves 0–1
- Needham 1–0
- New Hampshire 14–1
- New Haven 1–0
- New York University 1–0
- Newton A.C. 4–0
- Norwich 8–0
- Ohio Wesleyan 1–0
- Orange A.C. 1–0
- Penn State 0–1
- Pennsylvania 21–50–1
- Princeton 22–49
- Rhode Island 65–23–2
- Rhodes 1–1
- Rutgers 5–6
- Springfield 7–2–2
- St. Bonaventure 2–0
- Stetson 0–2
- Stony Brook 3–1
- Syracuse 3–9–3
- Temple 0–3
- Trinity (CT) 2–2–3
- Tufts 23–2
- UAlbany 2–0
- UConn 6–1
- Union (NY) 1–0
- Ursinus 1–0
- Vermont 15–0–1
- Washington & Jefferson 0–1
- Washington State 0–1
- Wesleyan (CT) 12–2
- Western Reserve 2–0
- William & Mary 1–0
- Williams 4–1
- WPI 7–1
- Yale 25–79–4
Conference titles
4, counting shared titlesAs the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.
Conferences
- Independent 1878, 1880, 1886 and 1889–1955
- Ivy League 1982–2019 and since 2021
Brown’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time).
Consensus All-Americans 7
| 1916 | Fritz Pollard RB |
| 1912 | George Crowther QB |
| 1911 | Earl Sprackling QB |
| 1910 | Earl Sprackling QB |
| 1909 | Adrian Regnier E |
| 1906 | John W. Mayhew RB |
| 1902 | Thomas A. Barry RB |
In the Hall of Fame
Every inductee- Players
- 2
- Coaches
- 3
| 1973 | Rip Engle coach here, 1944–1949 |
| 1964 | Bill Sprackling QB |
| 1962 | Tuss McLaughry coach, career 1915–1954 |
| 1955 | Edward N. Robinson coach here, 1898–1925 |
| 1954 | Fritz Pollard RB |
In the draft
By college- NFL picks, rounds 1–7
- 13 since 1940
- First-round picks
- 0
- AAFC picks
- 1 1949
The school
Brown University- Enrollment
- 11,956 7,910 undergraduates, fall 2024
- Where
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Public or private
- Private nonprofit; Research 1
- Founded
- 1765
- Graduates’ median earnings
- $93,487 10 years after starting
Enrollment, place and Carnegie research tier from the National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS, public domain). Earnings from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard (CC BY 4.0): the median for students who received federal aid and were working, not in school. Founding year from Wikidata. Every school’s in the data.
Season by season
National champions| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 1284 | ||||
| 2025 | 5–5 | 2–5 | 1263 | ||||
| 2024 | 3–7 | 2–5 | 1184 | ||||
| 2023 | 5–5 | 3–4 | 1224 | ||||
| 2022 | 3–7 | 1–6 | 1167 | ||||
| 2021 | 2–8 | 1–6 | 1143 | ||||
| 2019 | 2–8 | 1–6 | 1151 | ||||
| 2018 | 1–9 | 0–7 | 1078 | ||||
| 2017 | 2–8 | 0–7 | 1119 | ||||
| 2016 | 4–6 | 3–4 | 1202 | ||||
| 2015 | 5–5 | 3–4 | 1266 | ||||
| 2014 | 5–5 | 3–4 | 1300 | ||||
| 2013 | 6–4 | 3–4 | 1357 | ||||
| 2012 | 7–3 | 4–3 | 1382 | ||||
| 2011 | 7–3 | 4–3 | 1356 | ||||
| 2010 | 6–4 | 5–2 | 1367 | ||||
| 2009 | 6–4 | 4–3 | 1362 | ||||
| 2008 | 7–3 | 6–1 | 1369 | ||||
| 2007 | 5–5 | 4–3 | 1307 | ||||
| 2006 | 2–8 | 1–5 | 1275 | ||||
| 2005 | 9–1 | 6–1 | 1486 | ||||
| 2004 | 7–4 | 3–4 | 1357 | ||||
| 2003 | 5–5 | 4–3 | 1347 | ||||
| 1983 | 0–1 | 1368 | |||||
| 1982 | 1–0 | 1410 |
Every season back to 1878 (95 more)
| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 3–7 | 2–5 | John Anderson | 1355 | -18.5 | ||
| 1980 | 6–4 | 4–3 | John Anderson | 1508 | 0.7 | ||
| 1979 | 6–3 | 5–2 | John Anderson | 1531 | 5.7 | ||
| 1978 | 6–3 | 5–2 | John Anderson | 1544 | 6.6 | ||
| 1977 | 7–2 | 5–2 | John Anderson | 1600 | 1.8 | ||
| 1976 | 8–1 | 6–1 | John Anderson | 1620 | 8.5 | ||
| 1975 | 6–2–1 | 5–1–1 | John Anderson | 1541 | 9.8 | ||
| 1974 | 5–4 | 4–3 | John Anderson | 1455 | -7.4 | ||
| 1973 | 4–3–1 | 4–3 | John Anderson | 1396 | 6.0 | ||
| 1972 | 1–8 | 1–6 | Len Jardine | 1240 | -14.3 | ||
| 1971 | 0–9 | 0–7 | Len Jardine | 1238 | -13.5 | ||
| 1970 | 2–7 | 1–6 | Len Jardine | 1298 | -12.0 | ||
| 1969 | 2–7 | 1–6 | Len Jardine | 1271 | |||
| 1968 | 2–7 | 0–7 | Len Jardine | 1278 | |||
| 1967 | 2–6–1 | 1–5–1 | Len Jardine | 1312 | |||
| 1966 | 1–8 | 0–7 | John McLaughry | 1298 | |||
| 1965 | 2–7 | 1–6 | John McLaughry | 1381 | |||
| 1964 | 5–4 | 3–4 | John McLaughry | 1408 | |||
| 1963 | 3–5 | 2–5 | John McLaughry | 1352 | |||
| 1962 | 1–6–2 | 0–6–1 | John McLaughry | 1280 | |||
| 1961 | 0–9 | 0–7 | John McLaughry | 1222 | |||
| 1960 | 3–6 | 1–6 | John McLaughry | 1343 | |||
| 1959 | 2–6–1 | 1–5–1 | John McLaughry | 1374 | |||
| 1958 | 6–3 | 4–3 | Alva Kelley | 1517 | |||
| 1957 | 5–4 | 3–4 | Alva Kelley | 1481 | |||
| 1956 | 5–4 | 3–4 | Alva Kelley | 1460 | |||
| 1955 | 2–7 | Alva Kelley | 1374 | ||||
| 1954 | 6–2–1 | Alva Kelley | 1465 | ||||
| 1953 | 3–5–1 | Alva Kelley | 1372 | ||||
| 1952 | 2–7 | Alva Kelley | 1303 | ||||
| 1951 | 2–7 | Alva Kelley | 1289 | ||||
| 1950 | 1–8 | Gus Zitrides | 1361 | ||||
| 1949 | 8–1 | Rip Engle | 1583 | ||||
| 1948 | 7–2 | Rip Engle | 1512 | ||||
| 1947 | 4–4–1 | Rip Engle | 1396 | ||||
| 1946 | 3–5–1 | Rip Engle | 1363 | ||||
| 1945 | 3–4–1 | Rip Engle | 1433 | ||||
| 1944 | 3–4–1 | Rip Engle | 1414 | ||||
| 1943 | 5–3 | Skip Stahley | 1426 | ||||
| 1942 | 4–4 | Skip Stahley | 1395 | ||||
| 1941 | 5–4 | Skip Stahley | 1418 | ||||
| 1940 | 6–3–1 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1446 | ||||
| 1939 | 5–3–1 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1447 | ||||
| 1938 | 5–3 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1453 | ||||
| 1937 | 5–4 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1340 | ||||
| 1936 | 3–7 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1259 | ||||
| 1935 | 1–8 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1256 | ||||
| 1934 | 3–6 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1360 | ||||
| 1933 | 3–5 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1438 | ||||
| 1932 | 7–1 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1546 | ||||
| 1931 | 7–3 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1465 | ||||
| 1930 | 6–3–1 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1448 | ||||
| 1929 | 5–5 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1438 | ||||
| 1928 | 8–1 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1537 | ||||
| 1927 | 3–6–1 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1442 | ||||
| 1926 | 9–0–1 | DeOrmond McLaughry | 1599 | ||||
| 1925 | 5–4–1 | Edward Robinson | 1469 | ||||
| 1924 | 5–4 | Edward Robinson | 1502 | ||||
| 1923 | 6–4 | Edward Robinson | 1492 | ||||
| 1922 | 6–2–1 | Edward Robinson | 1498 | ||||
| 1921 | 5–3–1 | Edward Robinson | 1471 | ||||
| 1920 | 6–3 | Edward Robinson | 1479 | ||||
| 1919 | 5–4–1 | Edward Robinson | 1446 | ||||
| 1918 | 2–3 | Edward Robinson | 1459 | ||||
| 1917 | 8–2 | Edward Robinson | 1530 | ||||
| 1916 | 8–1 | Edward Robinson | 1582 | ||||
| 1915 | 5–4–1 | Edward Robinson | 1449 | ||||
| 1914 | 5–2–2 | Edward Robinson | 1463 | ||||
| 1913 | 4–5 | Edward Robinson | 1435 | ||||
| 1912 | 6–4 | Edward Robinson | 1524 | ||||
| 1911 | 7–3–1 | Edward Robinson | 1550 | ||||
| 1910 | 7–2–1 | Edward Robinson | 1593 | ||||
| 1909 | 7–3 | J.A. Gammons | 1568 | ||||
| 1908 | 5–3–1 | J.A. Gammons | 1553 | ||||
| 1907 | 7–3 | Edward Robinson | 1578 | ||||
| 1906 | 6–3 | Edward Robinson | 1571 | ||||
| 1905 | 7–4 | Edward Robinson | 1530 | ||||
| 1904 | 6–5 | Edward Robinson | 1496 | ||||
| 1903 | 5–4–1 | Dave Fultz | 1512 | ||||
| 1902 | 5–4–1 | J.A. Gammons | 1526 | ||||
| 1901 | 4–7–1 | Edward Robinson | 1401 | ||||
| 1900 | 7–3–1 | Edward Robinson | 1572 | ||||
| 1899 | 7–3–1 | Edward Robinson | 1557 | ||||
| 1898 | 6–4 | Edward Robinson | 1517 | ||||
| 1897 | 7–4 | Wallace Moyle | 1478 | ||||
| 1896 | 4–5–1 | Wallace Moyle | 1476 | ||||
| 1895 | 7–6–1 | Wallace Moyle | 1470 | ||||
| 1894 | 10–5 | William G. Norton | 1520 | ||||
| 1893 | 6–3 | William Odlin | 1409 | ||||
| 1892 | 4–5–1 | Charles P. Howland | 1221 | ||||
| 1891 | 4–6 | 1252 | |||||
| 1890few games on file | 0–2 | 1376 | |||||
| 1889few games on file | 0–1 | 1407 | |||||
| 1880few games on file | 0–1 | 1476 | |||||
| 1878few games on file | 0–1 | 1486 |
Officially 633–626–40 since 1878 (per Wikipedia, rechecked weekly); game by game here, 538–516–35 (1,089 of its 1,299 games are on file). Some games are missing from our source.
No season on file for 1879, 1881–88, 1984–2002, 2020: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.
Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.