Ursinus at Lafayette

Saturday, October 19, 1918

Lafayette beat Ursinus 17–⁠0. It was their 17th meeting; Lafayette leads the series 15–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayUrsinus0–⁠3 in 1918
0
HomeLafayette3–⁠4 in 1918
17

FinalHigh 60°F, low 34°F

In the newspapers

  • The The sun's story: LAFAYETTE WINS FROM URSINUS, 40 Easily Outclasses Visiting Team-Lehecka Stars.

    The sun, New York, October 20, 1918, page 1

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    LAFAYETTE WINS FROM URSINUS, 40 Easily Outclasses Visiting Team-Lehecka Stars. EAsroE, Pa. Oct. 10. - Lafayette opened the season here to-day with II to victory over Ursinus. The visitors were completely outclaBBed, failing to make O single first down in the first or second period. They made three in the third period on a series Of forward passes and then their offensive work ended when Lafayette took the ball on downs Ursinus held Lafayette scoreless In the third period, but Lafayette scored again In the ANAL period when Gebhardt went over the line after series of backfield plunges and then kicked the goal. Lee heclSa, a former Easton High School player, scored touchdown and kicked the goal in the first period. and kicked a field goal from the 45 yard line in the second period. The lineup:

  • The Harrisburg telegraph's story: LAFAYETTE wALLoPs URsINUs

    Harrisburg telegraph, Harrisburg, Pa., October 21, 1918, page 9

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    LAFAYETTE wALLoPs URsINUs Old Lafayette, alma mater of Cen eral March, took fall out of Ursinus on Saturday, 17–⁠0, with only one veteran in the lineup and relying exclusively on straight football tao tics. Lehecka, Gebhard and Reeves, the latter Philadelphia Northeast High boy, gained most of the ground for Lafayette. The lineup:

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 text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Lafayette 79% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Lafayette leads 15–⁠1–⁠1 in 17 meetings.

Recent meetings
1918Lafayette 17, Ursinus 0
1917Lafayette 12, Ursinus 6
1916Ursinus 6, Lafayette 0
1915Lafayette 13, Ursinus 2
1914Ursinus 7, Lafayette 7
1913Lafayette 44, Ursinus 2

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