Ripon at Michigan State
Saturday, November 7, 1931 Share
Michigan State beat Ripon 100–0. It was their only meeting on record.
FinalHigh 45°F, low 33°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 8, 1931, page 1
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Michigan State Gets 100 Points last LANSING, Mich, November – z (P.-Michigan States Iron man” foot ball team, led by Halfback Bob Monnett, and liberally sprinkled with substitutes, ran wild over Ripon College today, crushing the Wisconsin eleven with a score of 100 to 0. The game enabled Monnett to boost his point total for the season to 1875. He scored four touchdowns and made eight points after touch down by placements.

The Washington times, District of Columbia, November 9, 1931, page 18 (results column)
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Bob Monnett, triple-threat back of Michigan State, was second with 1875 points. He added 50 against Ripon College. which was defeated by State, 100 to 0. Satur’ day. Louis Bush. Massachusetts, State, was Scoreless on Saturday and dropped to second place among Eastern scorers with SO points. Few Unbeaten Eastern Teams Murphy, of Fordham, Is third with SO, and Garbsrk, Allegheny, and Winters, Davis and Elkins, are tied at “a each. Moran, Syracuse, with 70, ranks next. Others near the top are Mccall, Dart mouth, 70; Labove, Drexel, SO, and Hewitt, Columbia, 81. The only undefeated and un. tied elevens in the East were Davis and ElkinS, Cornell, Harward, Syracuse and Johns Hop kinS. The unbeaten but tied elevenS were Fordham, Allegheny, Bucknell and Temple. Boasts Best Record Davis and Elkins has the best record of all Eastern squads, hav. ing won eight games, scoring 299 points and remaining unscored on. Syracuse has won seven games, lost none and scored 231 points. Cornell has won six, lost none, scoring 232 points. Johns Hopkins with $50 points scored and Harvard with 142 points rolled up, have each won six games. Jack Manders, Mime sofas plunging fullback, leads the Western Conference scoring aces with 80 points. Pug” Rentner o. Northwestern and Fay Of Michigan trailed Manders with “a points apiece Cramer of Ohio State and Schnel ler of Wisconsin each have scored 18 points in conference competi ton while Pardonner Of Purdue has 16 to his credit. Northwestern In First Potter of Northwestern, Mac Dougal Of Minnesota, PurviS OF Purdue, Carroll of Ohio, Edmunds of Indiana and Jones Of Indiana have scored IL points each. Northwestern’s powerful football eleven holds first place. The standings:
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)
Michigan State 91% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Ripon–Michigan State gameMichigan State leads 1–0 in their only meeting.
Around this game
Ripon
- SeasonRipon in 1931
- ProgramRipon history and records
Michigan State
- Next gameat MichiganNov. 14, 1931
- SeasonMichigan State in 1931
- ProgramMichigan State history and records
