West Virginia at Fordham

Saturday, November 10, 1934

Fordham beat West Virginia 27–⁠20. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Fordham led the series 4–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayWest Virginia6–⁠4 in 1934
20
HomeFordham5–⁠3 in 1934
27

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Colonials Have CHANGED.

    Evening star, November 15, 1934, page 55

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    Colonials Have CHANGED. DUT the present-day Colonial eleven D is far cry from the one that met the Blue and Gold at the beginning of the last decade, when George Washington had just re-entered intercollegiate foot ball after a lapse due to the World War. Jim Pixlee’s warriors of 1884 have shown they are tough to conquer, as Louisiana State will attest following its close squeak here last week Not only will the Colonials be out Saturday to even an old score, but they will seek return to the win column after two straight defeats. West Virginia, which has beaten DuqueSne among others and only re- Gently lost 20–⁠27 heart-breaker to Fordham, figures to give the locals all the competition they can handle comfortably. Indeed, in some minds (besides Mike PALMS, George Wash ington will be lucky to win.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL 46REsULrs

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 12, 1934, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL 46REsULrs Following are results of princi- pal football games played last Sat- urday afternoon: Georgia IA; Yale T. Michigan State 0; Syracuse 10. Carnegie Tech 6; Temple 34. Tulane 6; Colgate 20. West Virginia 20; Fordham 27. Holy Cross 12; Manhattan 6. Chicago 0; Ohio State 36. Army 27; Harvard 6. Wisconsin 10; Michigan O. Purdue IS; Iowa 6. Navy 10; Notre Dame 0. Indiana 0; Minnesota 30. Pittsburgh 25; Nebraska 6. Illinois IA; Northwestern 3. Missouri 0; Kansas State 29. Rice T.; Arkansas 0. Texas Aggies 0; Southern Metho- dist 28. Auburn IS; Georgia Tech 6. Montana 20; Montana State 0. Washington O; Stanford “A. Texas 25; Baylor 6. Utah 6; Colorado T. Idaho O; Washington State l9. California T; Southern Califor’ mia 2. Oregon State 6; Oregon g. Pacific College ‘; College of Pu’ get Sound 2.

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)

Fordham 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Fordham leads 8–⁠3–⁠1 in 12 meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1954West Virginia 39, Fordham 9
1950Fordham 27, West Virginia 23
1946West Virginia 39, Fordham 0
1942Fordham 23, West Virginia 14
1941Fordham 27, West Virginia 0
1940Fordham 20, West Virginia 7

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