Marquette at Navy

Saturday, October 11, 1924

Marquette beat Navy 21–⁠3. It was their first meeting; after it, Marquette led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayMarquette1–⁠0 in 1924
21
HomeNavy2–⁠6 in 1924
3

FinalHigh 77°F, low 47°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story: NAVY LOSES TO MARQUETTE, 21-3

    The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, October 12, 1924, page 11

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    NAVY LOSES TO MARQUETTE, 21–⁠3 ANNAPOLIS. Md, Oct. 1I.-Con- serving their offensive strength until the final period, Marquette university exploited a varied attack featured by brilliant aerial plays, and defeated the Annapolis Middies on the gridiron, 12 to g. Three times the westerBers cross ed the Navy goal line and added the extra points from placement goals. Navy in the early part of the last quar- ter scored when Wellings dropped-kick- ed from the 33 yard line.

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)

Navy 93% to win. Marquette pulled the upset.

Tied 1–⁠1 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1925Navy 19, Marquette 0
1924Marquette 21, Navy 3

Around this game

Marquette

Navy