Villanova at Manhattan

Saturday, November 21, 1936

Villanova beat Manhattan 12–⁠0. It was their third meeting; after it, Villanova led the series 3–⁠0.

AwayVillanova7–⁠2–⁠1 in 1936
12
HomeManhattan6–⁠4 in 1936
0

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Line.ups and Summary. MANHATTAN is UPSET Bows to Villanova in 12-to-0 Game at Brooklyn.

    Evening star, November 22, 1936, page 32

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    Line.ups and Summary. MANHATTAN is UPSET Bows to Villanova in 12-to-0 Game at Brooklyn. NEW YORK. November 81 (P.- Although given q chance to win. the Manhattan College foot ball team was completely outclassed by a smooth villanova College eleven and fell, 1910, before $4,000 at Ebbets Field today. villanova with perfect fakes and reverses pushed over its two touch downs In the FIRST quarter before the local team could get the feel Of the 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)

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

Villanova leads 8–⁠1 in nine meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1942Villanova 32, Manhattan 0
1941Manhattan 9, Villanova 6
1940Villanova 13, Manhattan 6
1939Villanova 7, Manhattan 0
1938Villanova 20, Manhattan 0
1937Villanova 20, Manhattan 0

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