Colorado College at Colorado

Saturday, November 5, 1921

Colorado beat Colorado College 35–⁠14. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Colorado led the series 10–⁠5–⁠3.

AwayColorado College4–⁠4 in 1921
14
HomeColorado4–⁠1–⁠1 in 1921
35

FinalHigh 75°F, low 38°F

In the newspapers

  • The Pueblo chieftain's story: COLORADO j. WINS BY AERIAL ATTACK Colorado College Defeated So 14-Quinlan and Wizards Passing, Feature Game

    Pueblo chieftain, Colorado, November 6, 1921, page 26

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    COLORADO j. WINS BY AERIAL ATTACK Colorado College Defeated So 14-Quinlan and Wizards Passing, Feature Game Boulder, Colo, Nov. 5.-With brilliant aerial attack featuring its play thruout the game Colorado University humbled the eleven from Colorado Col lege today 30 TO IA. Tho outclassed the visitors scored first when Weiss in tercepted Colorado pass and ran so yards for n touchdown. Linger added Ian again kicking goal. Colorado scored in the second period when Quarterback Willard threw n pass to Fulghum who went the renaming % yards for a touchdown. Quinlan Kicked goal. A few minutes later willard tossed another pass to Noggle and the speedy end raced over the goal for another touchdown. Quinlan again kicked goal In the third period the state eleven advanced the ball well into the Tigers territory with passes and then put II over on line plays and penalties Quin- Ian again kickig goal. On the first play after receiving the kick off Muth the big Colorado tackle. passed fifty yards to Quinlan who scored the fourth touchdown and kicked goal Colorado added its fifth touchdown In the final period with the aid OF an Intercepted pass by Quinlan who went to the Tigers 1S-yard-line- Line plays carried the ball over. The Tigers scored their other touchdown in this period after they recovered a tumble on the Colorado 20 yard line. A for ward pass put the ball on the one yard line and Weiss went over for the score. Linger kicked goal.

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)

Colorado 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Colorado leads 27–⁠10–⁠3 in 40 meetings, counting the 22 since this game.

Recent meetings
1945Colorado 31, Colorado College 0
1945Colorado 13, Colorado College 0
1944Colorado 40, Colorado College 6
1944Colorado 28, Colorado College 0
1943Colorado College 6, Colorado 0
1943Colorado College 16, Colorado 6

Around this game

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