Marquette at Wisconsin

Saturday, October 1, 1932

Wisconsin beat Marquette 7–⁠2. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Wisconsin led the series 8–⁠0.

AwayMarquette4–⁠3–⁠1 in 1932
2
HomeWisconsin6–⁠1–⁠1 in 1932
7

FinalHigh 76°F, low 57°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Wisconsin VICTOR, 7-2.

    Evening star, October 2, 1932, page 63

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    Wisconsin VICTOR, 7–⁠2. Badgers Have Yet to Lose Tit TO Marquette on Gridiron. CAMP RANDALL STADIUM. MADI- SON, Wis, october (P-Wisconsin today sustained its reputation of never having met defeat on the gridiron at the hands of Marquette, but was pushed to the limit to exc out 7-to-2 victory in the opening game Of the season. The Badgers came from behind to win

  • 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)

Marquette 53% to win. Wisconsin won as Elo’s underdog.

Wisconsin leads 32–⁠4 in 36 meetings, counting the 28 since this game.

Recent meetings
1960Wisconsin 35, Marquette 6
1959Wisconsin 44, Marquette 6
1958Wisconsin 50, Marquette 0
1957Wisconsin 60, Marquette 6
1956Wisconsin 41, Marquette 0
1955Wisconsin 28, Marquette 14

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