Washington & Jefferson Presidents

Presidents’Washington, PACameron Stadium

2026: 5–⁠1 (4–⁠0 Presidents’). Last: won at Allegheny 56–⁠3. Next: at Thiel, Saturday, Oct 24, 1 p.m. ET.

  1. L 11–⁠26at Utica
  2. W 42–⁠0Keystone
  3. W 35–⁠7at Case Western Reserve
  4. W 55–⁠0Geneva
  5. W 56–⁠0Bethany (WV)
  6. W 56–⁠3at Allegheny
  7. Oct 24at Thiel
  8. Oct 31Grove City
  9. Nov 7Saint Francis
  10. Nov 14at Westminster (PA)

Washington & Jefferson has played football since at least 1897 and is 240–⁠101–⁠24 in the 365 games on record. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 2 players and 4 coaches from Washington & Jefferson. D.C. Morrow (1908–⁠1925) won more games here than any other coach: 52. The most-played rival is Pittsburgh: 28 meetings, Pittsburgh leads 18–⁠8–⁠2. This season, they’re 5–⁠1.

Résumé

Record on file
240–⁠101–⁠24 .690; how we count
Postseason
0–⁠1 bowls, title games, playoff
AP No. 1 finishes
0
Weeks at No. 1
0 of 0 ranked
Elo now
1230
Best season by Elo
1914 rated 1719
Seasons
48 since 1897, 365 games

2026 season 5–⁠1

RosterFull 2026 season

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

Washington & Jefferson’s Elo through 2026: 1161 going into the opener, 1230 after the latest game.11251150117512001225Elo 1161 going in; lost to Utica 26–11Elo 1135 going in; beat Keystone 42–0Elo 1147 going in; beat Case Western Reserve 35–7Elo 1180 going in; beat Geneva 55–0Elo 1199 going in; beat Bethany (WV) 56–0Elo 1204 going in; beat Allegheny 56–3Now: Elo 1230 after the latest game1230
Elo going into each game, then after the latest. Filled dots: wins; open: losses.

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 Washington & Jefferson.

Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.

Program strength since 1897

Best seasons ever
Washington & Jefferson end-of-season Elo from 1897 to 2026, best in 1914 at 1719.130015001700190019001920194019601980200020201914 peak: Elo 1719
End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

Head coaches

CoachYearsRecord
Andrew Kerr1926–⁠192816–⁠6–⁠5
D.C. Morrow1908–⁠192552–⁠19–⁠5
John Heisman19236–⁠1–⁠1
Greasy Neale1921–⁠192216–⁠3–⁠2
Ralph Hutchinson19182–⁠2
Sol Metzger1916–⁠191715–⁠5

Most-played series

All rivalries
OpponentGamesW&J record
Pittsburgh288–⁠18–⁠2
West Virginia2512–⁠11–⁠2
Bethany (WV)2322–⁠1
Carnegie Mellon2312–⁠6–⁠5
Waynesburg1616–⁠0
Bucknell1610–⁠5–⁠1
Lafayette168–⁠6–⁠2
Westminster (Pennsylvania)1515–⁠0
Every opponent (77)

Every program Washington & Jefferson has played, A to Z, with Washington & Jefferson’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

Conferences

  1. Independent 1905–⁠1934
  2. Presidents’ since 2014

Washington & Jefferson’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time).

Consensus All-Americans 3

1919Pete Henry OT
1918Pete Henry OT
1914Johnny Spiegel RB

In the Hall of Fame

Every inductee
Players
2
Coaches
4
2022John Luckhardt coach, career 1982–⁠2011
1967Greasy Neale coach here, 1921–⁠1922
1954Edgar Garbisch C
1954John Heisman coach here, 1923
1951Andrew Kerr coach here, 1926–⁠1928
1951Wilbur Henry OT

Season by season

National champions
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20265–⁠14–⁠01230
20258–⁠38–⁠01242
20249–⁠29–⁠11268
20238–⁠28–⁠21257
20228–⁠27–⁠21280
20203–⁠11261
19490–⁠11209
19460–⁠11250
19360–⁠11290
19350–⁠31370
19344–⁠51386
19332–⁠7–⁠11393
19325–⁠3–⁠11497
19316–⁠41471
19306–⁠2–⁠11503
19295–⁠2–⁠21508
19282–⁠5–⁠2Andrew Kerr1456
19277–⁠0–⁠2Andrew Kerr1665
19267–⁠1–⁠1Andrew Kerr1615
19256–⁠2–⁠1D.C. Morrow1550
19247–⁠2D.C. Morrow1572
19236–⁠1–⁠1John Heisman1569
19226–⁠3–⁠1Greasy Neale1523
192110–⁠0–⁠1Greasy Neale1660
19206–⁠3–⁠1D.C. Morrow1536
Every season back to 1897 (23 more)
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
19196–⁠2D.C. Morrow1578
1918few games on file2–⁠2Ralph Hutchinson1537
19177–⁠3Sol Metzger1620
19168–⁠2Sol Metzger1635
19158–⁠1–⁠11668
191410–⁠11719
191310–⁠0–⁠11671
19128–⁠3–⁠11566
19116–⁠4D.C. Morrow1500
19103–⁠3–⁠1D.C. Morrow1513
19098–⁠1–⁠1D.C. Morrow1591
190810–⁠2–⁠1D.C. Morrow1581
19077–⁠21565
19069–⁠21518
19059–⁠31398
1904few games on file0–⁠31222
1903few games on file1–⁠11254
1902few games on file0–⁠31213
1901few games on file1–⁠1–⁠11245
1900few games on file0–⁠2–⁠11223
1899few games on file0–⁠1–⁠11237
1898few games on file1–⁠11246
1897few games on file0–⁠11198

No season on file for 1937–⁠45, 1947–⁠48, 1950–⁠2019, 2021: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.

All 48 seasons on file are complete, game by game: every win and loss in the record has its game here.

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.