South Carolina at Villanova

Saturday, October 1, 1932

South Carolina beat Villanova 7–⁠6. It was their first meeting; after it, South Carolina led the series 1–⁠0.

AwaySouth Carolina5–⁠4–⁠2 in 1932
7
HomeVillanova7–⁠2 in 1932
6

FinalAttendance 7,500

In the newspapers

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story

    The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, October 3, 1932, page 13 (results column)

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    In addition, Bucknell plays Ford ham, and New York University will attempt to repel Rutgers. < Columbia, with its fast, powerful machine, is favored to trim the Princetonians, who showed no great brilliance Saturday in beating Amherst, 22–⁠0. Chicago will be .fav- ored to humble Yale because of the latter’s questionable showing against Bates, with a 0–⁠0 tie. ‘, Indians And Irish Notre Dame starts its season against Haskell, and Nebraska tackles Iowa State. Purdue meets B strong opponent in Minnesota; Northwestern and Michigan tangle in an interesting encounter, and Wisconsin plays Iowa. In the South, Georgia journeys to New Orleans to meet Tulane. re- putedly one of the strongest teams in Dixie. Tennessee clashes with North Carolina, and Georgia Tech meets Kentucky. On the Pacific Coast, the three big colleges face stern opposition. Stanford meets Santa Clara, which after beating California the week before. Southern California will have its hands full against this same Oregon aggregation. and Cal- ifornia opposes St Mary’s. Yale, which had been regarded as potentially the strongest team in the east, was held to scoreless tie by Bates in the biggest upset of the weekend. William and Mary triumphed over Navy 60. Two sur prises were recorded in the mid- west when Indiana was held to a 7–⁠6 victory by Ohio University, and Wisconsin barely beat Marquette, 7–⁠2. Unexpected In the south, reversals were registered when South Carolina nosed out Villanova, 7–⁠6, and Georgia succumbed to Virginia Polytechnic University, 7–⁠6. In the southwest, Texas Teachers turned back Southern Methodist 7–⁠6, and Centenary beat Texas, 13–⁠6. Oregon provided the Pacific Coast with an rpset by beating Santa Clara, 70. Other football powers had diffi- culties. Cornell defeated Niagara, TO; Army beat Furmah. 13–⁠0, and Lafayette won over Muhlenberg, 60,

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)

Villanova 53% to win. South Carolina won as Elo’s underdog.

Villanova leads 4–⁠1–⁠1 in six meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
1939Villanova 40, South Carolina 0
1938South Carolina 6, Villanova 6
1936Villanova 14, South Carolina 0
1934Villanova 20, South Carolina 0
1933Villanova 15, South Carolina 6
1932South Carolina 7, Villanova 6

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