St. Bonaventure at Cornell
Saturday, September 30, 1922 Share
Cornell beat St. Bonaventure 55–6. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 4–0.
FinalHigh 82°F, low 51°F
In the newspapers

The New York herald, October 1, 1922, page 54
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Cornell Shows Flashes Of Power in First Game Beats St. Bonaventure by & Score of SIS to s. Special Dispatch to TIE NEW YoRK HERALD. ITHACA, n. Y, Sept. 3O.-Cornell defeated ST. Bonaventure In the blazins sun here this afternoon by the score OF 55 to 6. The first game of the season found the Ithacans showing flashes of potential power, but still far from q smooth machine. At the outset they were put in hole when Hart muffed punt. and the first period found Kaw twice kicking out from behind his goal lire. The Cornell captain also muffed low punt behind the goal line. allowing Martineau to score a touchdown. The same Kaw, however. rallied his team in the second period and by series OF brilliant runs paved the way for the opening score made by Ramsey in that ueyiOd

Grand Forks herald, Grand Forks, N.D., October 2, 1922, page 1 (results column)
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NO UPSETS in EASTERN Tits Several of Leading Elevens Meet Unexpectedly Strong Opposition. New York. Oct.~ although. no upsets marked football in the east Saturday, practically all of the major and minor colleges swung into action, several of the prominent elevens, notably Harvard and Yale, encountered unexpected opposition from supposedly weak aggregations. George Owen of the Crimson lived up to his reputation as a plunging backfeld star, scoring two of his teams three touchdowns, but weak nesses in the line prevented the cam bridge eleven from rolling up a high er score than 20 to 0 against Middle bury college in it’s initial game Of the season. Yale. outweighing Carnegie Tech twenty pounds to the man, was OUT played and held scoreless in the sec ond half after rolling up but thirteen points in the first, on two field goals BIZ O’Hearn, and a, touchdown, largely to a Tech tumble. The Eli eleven fumbled frequently and showed considerably less team development than it’s lighter opponnents. Penn. State found a tartar in Will liam and Mary college, winning by rs to Z. University Of Pennsylvania was held to a 14–0 score by Franklin and Marshall, and Dartmouth was extended to beat Norwich 20 to o.. Princeton. Cornell and Columbia all displayed impressive form in their opening games. The Tigers downed Johns Hopkins 30 to o; Cornell, after an uncertain start in the first period, rolled UP a tally OF 55–6 against st. Bonaventure; while the Blue and White showed under Ursinus 48 to Z and uncovered a brilliant backfeld combination. Colgate opened it’s season auspiciously with a sos victory over Clark son. Brown, with a team of veterans defeated Rhode Island state “a to 0 in its initial test. West Point triumphed in a ..dou- BILE header” Army aggregations TAX ing the measure of Lebanon Valley AZ to 0, and Springfield So to O.

Bisbee daily review, Arizona, October 1, 1922, page 3 (results column)
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Football Results Columbia AS; Ursinus ‘. Harvard 20; Middlebury 0. Syracuse AT; Muhlenburg o. Yale 13; Carnegie Tech o. Vermont ‘; Maine 0. Tufts 13; Connecticut Aggies 0. Iowa Wesleyan 16; Knox College 6 Brown 27; Rhode Island State O. Rutgers 13; Penn Military 0. Center 21; Clemson o. Georgia Tech 31; Oglethorpe 6. Grinnell IA; Parsons 0. Columbia College IA; Wisconsin School Of Mines O. Notre Dame 46; Kalamazoo 0. Cornell 55; St. Bonaventure 6.
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)
Cornell 94% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every St. Bonaventure–Cornell gameCornell leads 7–0–2 in nine meetings, counting the five since this game.
Around this game
St. Bonaventure
- Next gameat ArmyNov. 4, 1922
- SeasonSt. Bonaventure in 1922
- ProgramSt. Bonaventure history and records
Cornell
- Next gamevs. NiagaraOct. 7, 1922
- SeasonCornell in 1922
- ProgramCornell history and records
