Georgetown at West Virginia

Saturday, November 7, 1936

Georgetown beat West Virginia 28–⁠0. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Georgetown led the series 5–⁠4–⁠1.

AwayGeorgetown6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1936
28
HomeWest Virginia6–⁠4 in 1936
0

FinalHigh 55°F, low 32°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: EOOT BALL 4s1REsULTs

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 9, 1936, page 5 (results column)

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    EOOT BALL 4s1REsULTs The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon, Washington IA Stanford IA, tie. Oregon State 16; Wa h n gton State G. Idaho T; St. Mary’s 26. California 13; Southern Califor- nia T. UCLA T; Oregon 0. Rice IA Arkansas 20. Nebraska 26; Kansas 0. Auburn 13; Georgia Tech 12. Texas A. M. Is; Southern Metho- dist 6. Western State 12; Brigh a m Young 26 Kentucky T; Manhattan 13. Purdue 0: Fordham 15. Boston University ‘; Rutgers 0. Virginia 0; Harvard 65. Wisconsin IS; Northwestern 26. Temple ‘; Michigan State 2, tie Columbia 13; Dartmouth 20. North Dakota 6; DePaul 19. Notre Dame 0; Navy 3. Cornell 13; Princeton fl. Carnegie Tech IA; New York Uni versity 6. Brown 6; Yale A. Chicago 0; Ohio State A Michigan ‘; Pennsylvania 27. Muhlenberg 2; Army 54. Iowa 0; Minnesota 52 Colgate 13; Holy Cross 20. Georgetown 28; West Virginia 0. Penn State ‘; Pittsburgh 34 Georgia 26; Florida 8. Syarcuse ‘; Indiana g. Marquette T; Creighton G.

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)

West Virginia 65% to win. Georgetown won as Elo’s underdog.

Georgetown leads 7–⁠4–⁠2 in 13 meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1939Georgetown 14, West Virginia 0
1938Georgetown 14, West Virginia 0
1937West Virginia 6, Georgetown 6
1936Georgetown 28, West Virginia 0
1933West Virginia 14, Georgetown 12
1932West Virginia 19, Georgetown 0

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