LSU at Manhattan

Saturday, October 12, 1935

LSU beat Manhattan 32–⁠0. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayLSU9–⁠2 in 1935
32
HomeManhattan0–⁠3 in 1935
0

FinalAttendance 20,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Big Ten Proves Strength.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 13, 1935, page 27 (results column)

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    Big Ten Proves Strength. ~se A Ten. as whole. was much weaker than usual, proved entirely unfounded as Purdue and Iowa accounted for the scalps of two previously unbeaten Eastern powers; Illinois halted Southern California, and Minnesota abruptly checked Nebraska’s bid for the national champion ship. Purdue invaded New York and trounced Jimmy Crowley’s Fordham Rams, 300, while Iowa’S Hawkeyes. a powerful outfit. turned back Col gates Red Raiders, 1876. Illinois took advantage Of all the breaks and wal loped Southern California, 1870, while Minnesota toppled Nebraska, 1877, after a ding-dong struggle in which the Cornhuskers tossed away several opportunities to push over the winning score. With Ohio States Buckeyes running up an 85–⁠7 count on Drake, Wisconsin’s Badgers were the only Big Ten losers in outside competition, taking a bad 27–⁠0 beat ing from Notre Dame. Michigan sur prised by taking Indiana over the hurdles, TO, in the only conference game of the day. The most spectacular game of the day, however, was fought at Philadelphia before $4,000 spectators, Yale’s flashing offensive carrying the Ellis to a 3l-20 triumph over Pennsylvania after the Quakers had scored two touchdowns early in the first quarter While Army and Dartmouth were hanging up one-sided triumphs in the East, Manhattan took a bad 32–⁠0 beating from strong Louisiana State University to make 1t a ruinous day for Eastern foot ball all around. A few Of the leaders-Holy Cross, Columbia, Pitt. Princeton and syracuse-canie through but some Of thena

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)

LSU 90% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

LSU leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

Around this game

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