Richmond at Roanoke
Saturday, October 5, 1935 Share
Richmond beat Roanoke 12–7. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Richmond led the series 5–2.
Final
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Richmond–Roanoke gameRichmond leads 6–3–1 in 10 meetings, counting the three since this game.
| 1938 | Roanoke 13, Richmond 6 | |
| 1937 | Richmond 21, Roanoke 12 | |
| 1936 | Roanoke 0, Richmond 0 | |
| 1935 | Richmond 12, Roanoke 7 | |
| 1934 | Richmond 27, Roanoke 0 | |
| 1933 | Richmond 19, Roanoke 0 |
Around this game
Richmond
- Next gameat VMIOct. 12, 1935
- SeasonRichmond in 1935
- ProgramRichmond history and records
Roanoke
- Next gameat GeorgetownOct. 12, 1935
- SeasonRoanoke in 1935
- ProgramRoanoke history and records
