Washington and Lee at Navy

Saturday, November 3, 1934

Navy beat Washington and Lee 26–⁠0. It was their third meeting; Navy leads the series 2–⁠1.

AwayWashington and Lee7–⁠3 in 1934
0
HomeNavy8–⁠1 in 1934
26

FinalHigh 56°F, low 38°FAttendance 22,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story: ANYMORE DAME GAM E SATURDAY VERY IMPORTANT Middies More. Formidable Than Princeton in East; WashingtOn=StanfOrd

    The Waterbury Democrat, November 5, 1934, page 16 (results column)

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    ANYMORE DAME GAM E SATURDAY VERY IMPORTANT Middies More. Formidable Than Princeton in East; WashingtOn=StanfOrd NOnlCeO trcSS SLau COrTeSpOnUCHt) New York, Nov 1.-Two games, each having an important bearing on the national championship race will feature this weeks football pro -Navy–Notre Dame intersec- tional match at Cleveland, and the Stanford Washington collision at Palo Alto, Calif. The latter is particularly signifi- cant because it may decide the Pacific conference winner and the westarn Rose bowl contender. The Navy–Notre Dame engage ment is of paramount importance because it matches the unbeaten and united middies, probably the strongest team in the east, with a fairly strong midwestern eleven. Navy now stands out as more for midable in the east than Prince ton following its 26–⁠0 victory over Washington and Lee, which pre- viously held Princeton to 14–⁠12 victory. Fifteen unbeaten major elevens | will see action this week. They are the only remaining un- | defeated major elevens following a weekend that saw five shunted out of the championship parade; Army, Dartmouth, George Wash ington, and Georgetown in the east and Chicago in the west. Hostilities may be outlined. as follows: l East-two intersectional games stand out. Unbeaten and united Michigan State invades unbeaten and united Syracuse. Louisiana State tackles George Washington which received it’s first beating from Vanderbilt. Other intersec- tional games bring together Yale Georgia, Colgate Tulane, and Du- quesne- Oklahoma A. and M. Louisiana State and Tulane, powers of the south, have not been beaten this season. Unbeaten east ern teams will paly the following regional opponents: Princeton Lehigh, Syracuse-Michigan State, Temple Carnegie Tech, Tufts Middlebury, and Trinity-Vermont. Other eastern encounters are Dart mouth-New Hampshire, Fordham- | West Virginia, Army Harvard, Manhattan Holy Cross, Penn State, Villa Vona-South Carolina, and Colum bia- Brown. Midwest-Navy–N -Notre Dame oc- cupies the spotlight, although an- other intersectional encounter brings together Nebraska and Pitts burg. Five Big Ten engagements are featured by those in which un- beaten Minnesota tangles with h. diana, and unbeaten Illinois meets | Northwestern. Other conference games match Iowa-Purdue, Mich igan-Wisconsin and Ohio State | Chicago. In the Big Six, Kansas State tangles with Missouri, and Oklahoma meets Iowa State. On Friday, Marquette invades St Louis. Easy for ‘Bama | South-Alabama, pride Of the south and an outstanding contend CT for the national title, meets Clemson. In the southwestern con- Florida Mississippi, Vanderbilt 1 SeWanee, and Tennessee Mississip- pi State. In the southern confer ence, Maryland meets Virginia Military Institute, North Carolina State tangles with Virginia Mill ltary. and Virginia meets Washing l ton and Lee. Tulsa engages Gen. tenary in an intersectional melee. Pacific coast-In addition to the Stanford Washington classic. two other conference games are slated: Washington State Idaho,. and Ore- gon- Oregon State. hwest-Undefeated Rice op- poses Arkansas in the feature con- ference game, while Southern Methodist meets Texas A and M., and Texas opposes Baylor. Rocky Mountain-Unbeate tah State opposes the Colorado Az gies, while two other conference games bring together Utah and Colorado, and Colorado college and Brigham Young. Drake invades Denver in an intersectional match.

  • The Evening star's story: Navy Visits Notre Dame.

    Evening star, November 5, 1934, page 11 (results column)

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    Navy Visits Notre Dame. Navy Visits Notre Dame. THERWISE the temporary lead ~ ers are menaced mostly by in tersectional rivals this week. Navy, whose great back, Buzz BorrieS, led the MidShipmen to decisive 26–⁠0 rout of Washington and Lee, will travel to Cleveland to meet Notre Dame, thoroughly walloped by Pitt, 1910. Pitt, meanwhile, hopes her galaxy of feet backs will be able to get loose for a touchdown or two against Nebraska, Big Six leader, at Lincoln. At least one perfect record will go by the boards when Michigan State and Syracuse collide at Syracuse. Two of the Southeastern Confer ence contenders, Tulane and LOUIS lana State. will travel into the North with the former getting the toughest assignment-a battle at New YORK with Colgate’s Red Raiders, whose tricky attack spells trouble with q capital 1T” Louisiana, meanwhile, will tackle George Washington in the National Capital. Minnesota, whose rugged line and star collection of backs, Lund, Alfonso. Kostka, ct al, buried Michigan, $40, under a second-half assault, should continue its march at least to share in the Big Ten title against Indiana. Illinois, which capitalized on one early break to down Army in a driving rain. encounters Northwestern, while Purdue, the only other undefeated conference contender after its sensational 1920 conquest of Chicago, tackles Iowa next

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: BALL As1REsULTs

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 5, 1934, page 5 (results column)

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    BALL As1REsULTs The following are final scores of principal football games played ast Saturday afternoon. Oregon State ‘; Washington IA Montana O; Oregon 13. Stanford 27; UCLA 0. Santa Clara 20; California 0. Notre Dame 0; Pittsburgh l9. Princeton 19; Harvard O. Georgia IA; Florida O. Michigan 0; Minnesota 34. Kansas 0; Iowa State 0. Washington and Lee 0; Navy 26. Army O; Illinois T. Wisconsin 0; Northwestern T. Iowa o; Indiana O. Alabama 34 Kentucky 14. Southern Methodist T; Texas T. Dartmouth 2; Yale T. Marquette 2; Michigan State l3. Cornell o; Columbia IA. Syracuse 16; Pennsylvania State ). Carnegie Tech 6. New York Uni versity o. Tennessee 12; Fordham 13. Holy Cross 0; Temple IA. Gonzaga 0; San Francisco Uni- versity 28.

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)

Navy 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Navy leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings.

Recent meetings
1934Navy 26, Washington and Lee 0
1932Navy 33, Washington and Lee 0
1916Washington and Lee 10, Navy 0

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