Maryland at North Carolina
Saturday, October 25, 1924 Share
Maryland beat North Carolina 6–0. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Maryland led the series 3–2.
FinalHigh 72°F, low 35°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 26, 1924, page 65
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The Birmingham age-herald, October 27, 1924, page 14 (results column)
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‘BAMA AND GEORGIA IN CENTER OF STAGE Victories Over Tech And Vanderbilt Give Grim sons And Bulldogs High Rating @ The strong Florida outfit went all the way to Austin to fight out a stir ring z to7 tie with the University Of Texas, the second tie of the season by the same score for the Alligators. Two field goals enabled the Univer- sity of Maryland to defeat the Univer. sity of North Carolina. 6. to 0 ani enter the select circle of winners. Kentucky, Wins First The Kentucky Wildcats made. the only touchdown in their game with Se- vance and won their first conference game, 2 to o, while. the Purple Tigers have yet to register. % ... “Ole Miss” ran into trouble in their clash with the Arkansas Razorbacks and lost, 20 to 0: -ti- Fort Benning’s great team met a worthy foe in the Third Army Corps aggregation and there was no scoring at Baltimore. *- Maryville launched an invasion of Ohio that brought the. bacon back to the south,. defeating St. Xavier, 26 to 6. Centere was not so fortunate on it’s trip to New York to meet West Vir- ginia, but the Mountaineers were held to q 13 to G victory. Citadel Upsets Dope An upset in South Carolina football was the defeat of Furman by the Cita- del, 6 to 0. This, may have been case of taking the pitcher to the well too often, for Thurman was playing it’s third game in eight days. Citadel was put ting on a homecoming demonstration and seems to have picked a good day. Mercer had fight on its hands in n game with Howard, but finally won, If to 5. Oglethorpe was forced to be satisfied with 13 to 13 tie with Loyo- la in New Orleans. A one point margin gave the Tennessee Meds a decision over “Bo” McMillin’s Centenary team at Shreveport, the score being 2 to 6. Big scores were run up in three games. Carson Newman beat Cumberland, 40 to o. King stopped Milligan, Al to 0, and Stetson won from Piedmont, 43 to 0. William and Mary continued to play good football and defeated Trinity, 21 to 3. Birmingham-Southe defeated Mississippi college, 12 to 6, in a hard game and Emory and Henry stopped Elon, 12 to o. Richmond won from Macon, 9 to o, and Wake Forests victory over Lynchburg was 9 to 2.

Atlanta tri-weekly journal, Atlanta, Ga., October 28, 1924, page 3 (results column)
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ALABAMA DEFEATS TECH; GEORGIA WINS FROM VANDERBILT Saturdays football games in the south resulted in the defeat of Georgia Tech by University of Alabama and the victory of University of Georgia over Vanderbilt and of Auburn over Louisiana State. Alabama out, played Tech and won, IA to 0. Both Georgia and Auburn outplayed their opponents but each was able to win only by “a field goal. Mercer won from Howard IA to 5, by late rally, and Citadel beat Fur man, 6 to 0. Kentucky barely won from Sc vance, to 0, While Centre was being defeated by West Virginia, 13 to s, in a game played in New York city. Florida made the long trtA to AUS tin and was held to a to tie by University of Texas. Virginia lost TO Pennsylvania, 81 to 0, while V. NJ. l. was walloping North Carolina State, II to Z, and Maryland was beating University Of North Carolina by two field goals. 49, Mississippi A. & NJ. beat Tennessee, to 2, while University Of Mississippi was being soundly thrashed by Arkansas, 20 to O. In the east, Harvard lost to Dart mouth, to 0; Yale beat Brown, Is | to 3; Notre Dame ran away with Princeton, II to o. Syracuse won from Penn state, 10 to g. Army wal loped Boston college, 30 to 0, and T,3faVette oVerw helnoed Wa of on and Jefferson, 20 to 0. Michigan furnished the big sur. prise in the west. Although terrifi. cally punished the week before by Illinois, the Wolverines came back strong and beat Wisconsin, 81 to z. Iowa won from Minnesota, Chicago tied Ohio State, and Nebraska beat Kansas, IA to Z.
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)
North Carolina 64% to win. Maryland won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Maryland–North Carolina gameNorth Carolina leads 37–32–1 in 70 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.
Around this game
Maryland
- Next gameat CatholicNov. 1, 1924
- SeasonMaryland in 1924
- ProgramMaryland history and records
North Carolina
- Next gamevs. South CarolinaNov. 1, 1924
- SeasonNorth Carolina in 1924
- ProgramNorth Carolina history and records

