Middlebury at Boston College

Saturday, October 11, 1919

Boston College beat Middlebury 25–⁠0. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayMiddlebury0–⁠2 in 1919
0
HomeBoston College5–⁠3 in 1919
25

FinalHigh 77°F, low 62°F, 0.03 in. of rain

Spalding’s Official Foot Ball Guide (1920) gives Boston College 26–⁠0, in both teams’ records (the scan on the Internet Archive).

In the newspapers

  • The The Bennington evening banner's story: FOOTBALL RESULTS Saturdays Games Contained But Few Surprises

    The Bennington evening banner, Bennington, Vt., October 13, 1919, page 1 (results column)

    Read the text

    FOOTBALL RESULTS Saturdays Games Contained But Few Surprises Saturdays Games Contained But Few Surprises Yae, “a; North Carolina, Z. Harvard, 35; Colby, O, Princeton, 81 Lafayette, 6. Cornell, g. Williams, 0. Syracuse, Z; Army, 8. Navy, Sc; Johns Hopkins, 0. Boston College, 25; Middlebury, 0. Holy Cross, Ia; Bowdon, 0. Dartmouth, 81; Mass. Aggies, Z. Pennsylvania, 80; Delaware, 0. Bates, Sc; Ft. Mckinley, 0. Stevens, g. Haverford, O.. Maine, 50; FIT. Williams, O. Franklin & Marshall, 26; Albridge 0. Lehigh, 19; Rutgers, o. St. Lawrence, 6; Rochester, 8. Phillips Exter, 7; Dartmouth Fresh men, O. Amherst, 10; Union, 0. Wesleyan, 35; Rhode Island State, 0. Pennsylvania State, 8; Bucknell, 0. Trinity, 6; Connecticut Aggies, 0. Swarthmore IA; Pennsylvania Mill tary College, O. Colgate. IA; Brown, 0.

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)

Boston College 84% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Boston College leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

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