Wake Forest at Furman

Thursday, October 11, 1934

Furman beat Wake Forest 3–⁠2. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Furman led the series 9–⁠1.

AwayWake Forest3–⁠7 in 1934
2
HomeFurman5–⁠4 in 1934
3

FinalHigh 64°F, low 57°F, 0.76 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current's story: TARHEEL GRID MACHINES IN BIG CLEANUP Saturdays Wins Serve No. tice Southern Honors To Be Striven for

    The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, North Carolina, October 15, 1934, page 3

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    TARHEEL GRID MACHINES IN BIG CLEANUP Saturdays Wins Serve No. tice Southern Honors To Be Striven for CHARLOTTE, Oct. 15.-Tarheel football teams experienced their most successful Saturday in many years, and at the same time served notice that they will be strong contenders for Southern Conference honOrs on Saturday. Dukes Blue Devils led the Tarheel attack with a 20 to 0 win from Georgia Tech, which at the same time wiped out the sting Of Techs to 0 win of last year which robbed the Dukes o. a possible bid for the Rose Bowl game. The University Tarheels made it two up on Georgia teams at the same time with a decisive Il to 0 win over the Georgia Bulldog, and State college made it a grand slam with a 6 to 0 win over South CAROLINA. Wake Forest dropped a 3 to 2 decision to Furman university on Thurs dav Wallace Wade’s Blue Devils nncorked a passing attack that gave them a three touchdown advantage over Tech in the first half. Wentz. Cornelius and Alex ander scored for Duke. The Tarheels held the vaunted Georgia team in check. once stopping the Bulldogs for downs on the one-yard line, while Shaeffer crossed the Georgia line twice and Daniels kicked two place ments. Hayden passed to Farrar in the closing minutes of play to give State it’s one touch down win over the South Carolina Game cock in a night game at Raleigh. The Davidson Wildcats were idle over the weekend as David son coaches secuted Duke preparatory to the Devil-Wlldcat clash this Saturday. In the South, Tennessee de feated Mississippi 27 to 0, Ala bama downed Mississippi State

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)

Furman 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Furman leads 11–⁠7 in 18 meetings, counting the eight since this game.

Recent meetings
1977Wake Forest 24, Furman 13
1974Wake Forest 16, Furman 10
1953Furman 21, Wake Forest 10
1952Wake Forest 28, Furman 0
1942Wake Forest 14, Furman 6
1941Wake Forest 52, Furman 13

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