Mississippi State vs. Duquesne

Friday, January 1, 1937, Orange Bowl

No. 12 Duquesne beat Mississippi State 13–⁠12. It was their first meeting; after it, Duquesne led the series 1–⁠0.

Neutral siteMississippi State7–⁠3–⁠1 in 1936
12
Neutral site12Duquesne8–⁠2 in 1936
13

FinalTV: CBS RadioAttendance 9,210Referee: Tom ThorpThe game on Wikipedia

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: U. WASHINGTON LOSES CONTEST TO PITTSBURGH Huskies Are Unable to Put Across One Score in Rose Bowl Game

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, January 2, 1937, page 5 (results column)

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    U. WASHINGTON LOSES CONTEST TO PITTSBURGH Huskies Are Unable to Put Across One Score in Rose Bowl Game College football yesterday passed from the sports scene for a year with gruelling contests on far flung gridirons. Pittsburgh triumphed over the University of Washington 21 to 0 in the annual Rose Bowl game. It was the first time win for the panthers in four tries. Santa Clara downed Louisiana State 21 to IA in the New Orleans Sugar Bowl. East-West Game The Eastern stars triumphed 3 to 0 over the Western grid heroes in San Francisco in the annual Shrine game when Bud Sandbach, of Princeton, booted field goal. Texas Christian routed Marquette 16 to in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Texas. In Orange Bowl Duquesne nosed out Mississippi State 13 to 12 in Miami’s Orange Bowl. Villanova and Auburn battled to a 7–⁠7 tie in the closing event of the International Sports Week at Havana, Cuba. Hardin Simmons walloped Texas College of Mines 34 to 6 in the El Paso. Texas. Sun Bowl. It is estimated that 100000 spec tators saw the contests and 87,00O of p them were crowded into the Rose Bowl at Pasadena.

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)

Duquesne 60% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Tied 3–⁠3 in six meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
1947Mississippi State 34, Duquesne 0
1942Mississippi State 28, Duquesne 6
1941Duquesne 16, Mississippi State 0
1938Mississippi State 12, Duquesne 7
1937Duquesne 9, Mississippi State 0
1936Duquesne 13, Mississippi State 12Orange Bowl

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