South Dakota at Army
Saturday, November 2, 1929 Share
Army beat South Dakota 33–6. It was their only meeting on record.
FinalHigh 77°F, low 48°F, 0.22 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1929, page 93
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S. DAKOTA CRUSHED BY ARMY, 33TO6 Cadet Regulars in Game Only Short Time to Pile Up Large Score. BY the Associated Press. w VEST POINT, N. Y. November A Army crushed South under a 33-to-6 score today but only after the Western ers had surprised the 10000 spectators by holding the Cadet second string team to a scoreless tie for two periods. Throughout the first half the South Dakotans more than held their own against the Cadets, gaining ground consistently on q straight running at tack, but Army’s kicking game kept the Westerners away from the goal line. With the score deadlocked at 90, Coach Bih Jones sent his regulars into the gray at the start of the third period and eagle, Murrel & Co., Tailed four touchdowns in little more time than it takes to tell about it. eagle him self escorted the ball over the line for two Army scores, Murrel scored an other and Messenger the fourth. The second string team rallied an other touchdown in the final quarter, Stecker, who played bang-up game all afternoon, making the score. 1t was in this session that South Dakota finally crossed the Cadet goal line. Labrie. OF the Westerners, took a pass from Car Isle to score the South Dakota touch down, but Carlisle’s try for goal failed Carlisle was the outstanding star foI South Dakota. His passes were long and

The Daily Alaska empire, November 4, 1929, page 8 (results column)
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GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are scores of i’m portant football games played Sat- urday in various parts of the Unit ed States: St. Ignatius IA; Gonzalez ‘. California 15; Southern California ‘. Willamette 25; Pacific 0. Oregon 27; University of Califor- mia at Los Angeles 0. Washington State g; Oregon State 0. Kansas Aggies 2; Missouri 6. Purdue 13; Wisconsin O. Minnesota 19; Indiana T. Carnegie Tech 19; Washington University O. Notre Dame 26: Georgia Tech 6 Nebraska 13; Kansas 6. Princeton 2; Chicago l5. Yale 16; Dartmouth 12. Harvard IA; Florida 0. Penn State 6; Syracuse 4. Amherst 13; Mass. Aggies o. Army 33; South Dakota 6. Ohio IA; Miami 0. Georgetown IA; New York 0. Cornell 12; Columbia 6. Northwestern T; Illinois o. Stanford 39; California Tech 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)
Army 96% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every South Dakota–Army gameArmy leads 1–0 in their only meeting.
Around this game
South Dakota
- Next gameat MinnesotaNov. 8, 1930
- SeasonSouth Dakota in 1929
- ProgramSouth Dakota history and records
Army
- Next gameat IllinoisNov. 9, 1929
- SeasonArmy in 1929
- ProgramArmy history and records

