Rutgers at New York University

Saturday, October 20, 1928

New York University beat Rutgers 48–⁠0. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Rutgers led the series 6–⁠2.

AwayRutgers0–⁠1 in 1928
0
HomeNew York University8–⁠2 in 1928
48

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Indianapolis times's story: Five Elevens Set Pace on Eastern Grid Army and Pennsylvania Turn Hardest Tricks on Saturday.

    The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], October 22, 1928, page 10 (results column)

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    Five Elevens Set Pace on Eastern Grid Army and Pennsylvania Turn Hardest Tricks on Saturday. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-Five teams Army, New York university, Penn sylvania, Dartmouth and Yale were at the top of the football heap in the east today by virtue of their clean records and impressive VIC tories Saturday. Army and Pennsylvania turned the hardest tricks by defeating Harvard and Penn State IS to and IA to 0, respectively. Yale increased its reputation by scoring a lop-sided victory over Brown, 80 to IA, and Dartmouth revealed a powerful Of fensive, defeating Columbia 81 to Z. Syracuse displayed unexpected strength on it’s invasion of the west when it lost to husky Nebraska eleven by one point, to 6. New York university routed Rutgers, 48 to 0.

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)

New York University 67% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Rutgers leads 15–⁠9–⁠1 in 25 meetings, counting the 17 since this game.

Recent meetings
1952Rutgers 27, New York University 14
1951Rutgers 55, New York University 0
1950Rutgers 42, New York University 0
1949Rutgers 33, New York University 9
1948Rutgers 40, New York University 0
1947Rutgers 40, New York University 0

Around this game

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