Michigan State at Colgate
Saturday, October 12, 1929 Share
Colgate beat Michigan State 31–0. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Colgate led the series 4–0.
Final
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 13, 1929, page 77
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COLGATE SMOTHERS MICHIGAN STATE, $40 BY the Associated Press. BY the Associated Press. HAMILTON, N. Y, october 12.- Playing their third straight intersectional game of the season, Colgate scored a 3l-to-0 victory over Jim Crow ley’s Michigan State Spartans here today The Maroon team displayed a strong attack. which was featured by the brilliant running of Tommy Dowler. The stellar Colgate halfback skirted the visitors wings for half dozen long runs. Colgate scored soon after the start of the game. An exchange of punts put the ball on the Maroon 30-yard line. Three line plays gained a first down and Hart followed with a beautiful A. yard run. On the next play Dowler ran 20 yards to touchdown. In the second period Colgate ran its total TO 10 by virtue of Dowler’s second and third touchdowns. A blocked punt by ellison gave Colgate the ball deep in the SpaAsns’ territory and paved the way for the second score. Kerr threw his second and the third string men into the game in the second half. Macaluso played a part of the third period and gained consistently on vicious line plunges Conroy. sopl1omore back, also carried the ball for many long gains.

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 14, 1929, page 5 (results column)
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GRID GAMES ‘‘ ON SATURDAY The following are scores of prln- cipal games of football played last Saturday afternoon in various parts Of the country: Stanford 57; University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles 0. Oregon State II; Columbia Uni versity T. Oregon 34; Willamette 0. Southern California 43: Washing ton 0. Tulane 34; Mississippi A and M 0. Missouri 19; Iowa State O. Marquette 2; Grinnell g. Alabama 46; Chattanooga 0. Dartmouth 53; Alleghany 0. Illionis 45; Bradley 0. Ohio 21; Wesleyan T. Minnesota IS; Vanderbilt 6. Purdue 30; Michigan 16. Virginia .12; Swarthmore ‘. Harvard 35; New Hampshire 0. Fordham 27; New York Univer- sity 0. Chicago 13; Indiana T. Boston University 27; Vermont 6. Army 12; Davidson 2. Georgetown 13;- St. Louis Uni Carnegie Tech B; Reserves 6. versity O. Ohio State T; Iowa 6. Brown 13; Princeton 12. Columbia 52; Wesleyan 0. Nebraska 13; Syracuse 6. American University 8; George Washington 0. Colgate 31; Michigan State 0. Notre Dame IA; Navy T. California IS; Washington State O. Whitman II; Linfield 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)
Colgate 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Michigan State–Colgate gameColgate leads 4–1 in five meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1930 | Michigan State 14, Colgate 7 | |
| 1929 | Colgate 31, Michigan State 0 | |
| 1928 | Colgate 16, Michigan State 0 | |
| 1926 | Colgate 38, Michigan State 6 | |
| 1925 | Colgate 14, Michigan State 0 |
Around this game
Michigan State
- Next gamevs. AdrianOct. 19, 1929
- SeasonMichigan State in 1929
- ProgramMichigan State history and records
Colgate
- Next gameat IndianaOct. 19, 1929
- SeasonColgate in 1929
- ProgramColgate history and records

