Drake at Des Moines
Saturday, October 26, 1918 Share
Drake beat Des Moines 36–7. It was their only meeting on record.
Final
Spalding’s Official Foot Ball Guide (1919) gives Drake 35–6, as two scans of the guide read it (the scan on the Internet Archive).
In the newspapers
Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, October 27, 1918, page 1
Read the text
Drake Wins From Des Moines In Sea of Mud, So to 7 Score Des MONIES, Oct. 26.--Playing in sea of mud and a cold drizzling rain, Drake university easily downed the Des Moines college eleven here today, IS to 7. The losers did not make first down once, their touchdown coming when end Buchanan intercepted a Drake. for ward pass and ran IS yards to the goal fine. Drake was light but fast and used every variety of play. Only members of the S. A. T. c. saw the game.
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)
Drake 62% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Drake–Des Moines gameDrake leads 1–0 in their only meeting.
Around this game
Drake
- Next gamevs. GrinnellNov. 2, 1918
- SeasonDrake in 1918
- ProgramDrake history and records
Des Moines
- SeasonDes Moines in 1918
- ProgramDes Moines history and records