Montana State vs. Montana

Saturday, October 24, 1936

Montana beat Montana State 27–⁠0. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Montana led the series 11–⁠2–⁠1.

Neutral siteMontana State3–⁠5 in 1936
0
Neutral siteMontana6–⁠3 in 1936
27

FinalHigh 54°F, low 31°F, 0.07 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: Stanford, California Teams Slip

    Imperial Valley press, California, October 26, 1936, page 5 (results column)

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    Stanford, California Teams Slip Realignment Of Pacific coast conference football prestige, placed use, Washington and Washington State in the top spots and brought home forcibly that Stanford and California, usually dangerous, are but shadows OF their former selves this season. 1t appeared that the Trojan Husky tilt three weeks hence may be the game from which the VESTS Rose Bowl candidate may emerge, although Washington State is still in very good standing. use. continued to be impress sive by beating Stanford AT. The Indians who ruled the conference either factually or nominally for three years, have yet to win a game Next Saturday they battle UCLA. Washington ran circles around California 1870 at Seattle. The Berkeley squad got but one first down. Next Saturday Washington plays Oregon at Portland in the north “SSo us 9oiiC dllb SOdCll my Phelan is worried. Oregon last Saturday nearly stop ped Washington State. The Holling berry men finally won 80 with Roger Dougherty’s field goal. U. S. G. rests next week end and will have two weeks time to prepare for California and Washing ton on successive Saturdays. In tersectionally, Santa Clara tackles Auburn of Alabama at Kezal stadium. Idaho takes on Gonzaga and Montana invades Corvallis tt play Oregon State, who lost 1913 to U.CLA. Montana beat Montana State 27- 0 Saturday, University of Nevada eked out 7–⁠6 win over Idaho at Reno, ST. Mary’s lost 7–⁠6 to Ford ham in the principal game of its annual eastern invasion and Con zaga dOWned University of San Francisco 1T in a Sunday game.

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)

Montana 66% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Montana leads 38–⁠18–⁠1 in 57 meetings, counting the 43 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Montana State 48, Montana 23FCS Championship – Semifinals, CFP Semifinal
2025Montana State 31, Montana 28
2024Montana State 34, Montana 11
2023Montana 37, Montana State 7
2022Montana State 55, Montana 21
2021Montana 29, Montana State 10

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