Marquette at Creighton

Saturday, November 7, 1936

No. 4 Marquette beat Creighton 7–⁠6. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Marquette led the series 6–⁠3–⁠1.

Away4Marquette7–⁠2 in 1936
7
HomeCreighton4–⁠4 in 1936
6

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 8, 1936, page 24 (results column)

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    crushed Virginia, $50. Bucknell and Syracuse were beaten in the Middle West, the former by Detroit. 1877. and Syracuse by Indiana, 81, but Temple gained TT tie with Michigan State and Villanova beat South Carolina, 14–⁠0. Georgetown remained in the unbeaten ranks by routing West Virginia in surprising fashion, $50. Other Eastern fixtures saw Dart mouth outpoint Columbia, 20–⁠13; Holy Cross beat Colgate by the same count; Carnegie Tech stopped New York University. 1876; Pitt ran. over Penn State, 1877; Princeton trounced Cornell, 4l-l3. and Yale halted Brown, 14–⁠6. In the Midwest, Minnesota came raging back from its defeat. by Northwestern to shellack Iowa, $40, before a crowd Of $4,000. Ohio State ran up 44–⁠0 count on Chicago. Art Guepes 75-yard touchdown dash in the last quarter was all that saved Marquette’s perfeet record, the run and subsequent conversion adding up to a 7–⁠6 victory over Creighton. Nebraska moved on In the big six title race, beating Kansas, $50, - OkAhoma and Kansas State

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)

Marquette 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Marquette leads 6–⁠3–⁠2 in 11 meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1940Marquette 27, Creighton 27
1936Marquette 7, Creighton 6
1935Marquette 26, Creighton 0
1934Marquette 38, Creighton 0
1933Marquette 14, Creighton 9
1932Marquette 0, Creighton 0

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