Richmond at Roanoke

Saturday, October 5, 1935

Richmond beat Roanoke 12–⁠7. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Richmond led the series 5–⁠2.

AwayRichmond3–⁠3–⁠3 in 1935
12
HomeRoanoke0–⁠4 in 1935
7

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: RICHMOND SCORES, 1877 Aerial Attack Is too Much for Roanoke College.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 6, 1935, page 33

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    RICHMOND SCORES, 1877 Aerial Attack Is too Much for Roanoke College. SALEM, Va, october R.-Uncovering . highly accurate passing game that completed 8 out Of 13 tosses attempted. 2 Of them for touchdowns, the University of Richmond nailed Roanoke College early in the game here this afternoon and then staved OF . counter-passing attack that counted once and threatened again several times in the final quarter, to win, IL tot.

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)

Richmond 84% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Richmond leads 6–⁠3–⁠1 in 10 meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1938Roanoke 13, Richmond 6
1937Richmond 21, Roanoke 12
1936Roanoke 0, Richmond 0
1935Richmond 12, Roanoke 7
1934Richmond 27, Roanoke 0
1933Richmond 19, Roanoke 0

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