Lafayette at Colgate

Saturday, October 11, 1930

Colgate beat Lafayette 41–⁠0. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Lafayette led the series 2–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayLafayette0–⁠3–⁠1 in 1930
0
HomeColgate9–⁠1 in 1930
41

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: NO JOB FOR COLGATE TO CRUSH LAFAYETTE Capt. Kerr Makes Three Touch downs as His Eleven Romps to 41.to-0 Victory.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 12, 1930, page 68

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    NO JOB FOR COLGATE TO CRUSH LAFAYETTE Capt. Kerr Makes Three Touch downs as His Eleven Romps to 41.to-0 Victory. HAMILTON, N. Y, October 11.-Colgate crashed through Lafayette today to win by Al to o. Three touchdowns were scored in the first period and three more and a safety in the second half. Capt. Les Hart of the Kerrmen made three of the counters. The game was less than 1--WE minutes old when he tailed first. Next he ran 81 yards for another touchdown after taking bounding punt. Lafayette failed to show any concerted attack while the Maroon second and third string men swarmed over the field, intercepted Leopard passes, COM pleted their own and tore OF sweeps Tor heavy yardage.

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 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Colgate leads 35–⁠11–⁠3 in 49 meetings, counting the 45 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Lafayette 59, Colgate 42
2024Lafayette 21, Colgate 20
2023Colgate 37, Lafayette 34
2022Lafayette 21, Colgate 16
2021Colgate 20, Lafayette 13
2020Lafayette 24, Colgate 10

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