Erskine at South Carolina

Saturday, October 1, 1921

South Carolina beat Erskine 13–⁠7. It was their third meeting; after it, South Carolina led the series 2–⁠1.

AwayErskine6–⁠2 in 1921
7
HomeSouth Carolina5–⁠1–⁠2 in 1921
13

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Washington herald's story: H. of S. G.. Trims Erskine.

    The Washington herald, District of Columbia, October 2, 1921, page 13

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    H. of S. G.. Trims Erskine. COLUMBIA, s. c.. Oct. 1.-The University of South Carolina opened its football season today by defeating Erskine 13 to 7. On account of the hot weather the game was not spectacular, but some good pIayiny was seen during the after noon. The stars of the game were philips, Erskine’s quarterback, who IAN 65 wards for a touchdown, and who paved stellar game all around. Never, Belk and Gressette did good work for Carolina.

  • Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, October 2, 1921

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    SOUTH CAROLINA STATE VICTOR OVER ERSKINE COLUMBIA. S. c., Oct. AFTER Iniilins’ OF Erskine, had placed his team in the lead BY a sixty-fvo-v,rd run To n touchdown, South Carolina came back in the last few minutes OF play TO score the deciding touch down. the final score being 10 to .. Score by periods.

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)

South Carolina 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

South Carolina leads 15–⁠1 in 16 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.

Recent meetings
1938South Carolina 53, Erskine 0
1936South Carolina 38, Erskine 0
1935South Carolina 33, Erskine 0
1934South Carolina 25, Erskine 0
1930South Carolina 19, Erskine 0
1929South Carolina 26, Erskine 7

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