Lafayette at Brown

Saturday, October 8, 1938

Brown beat Lafayette 20–⁠0. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Lafayette led the series 3–⁠2.

AwayLafayette2–⁠2 in 1938
0
HomeBrown5–⁠3 in 1938
20

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: BROWN SCORES AGAIN Trims Lafayette, 900, to Remain Undefeated-Hall Stars.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 9, 1938, page 29

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    BROWN SCORES AGAIN Trims Lafayette, 900, to Remain Undefeated-Hall Stars. PROVIDENCE, R. l.. Oct. 8 R- Irving Shine” Hall, Browns nominaton for all-star honors, had a field day here this afternoon by personally accounting for Is points as the Bruin continued undefeated by trouncing Lafayette. 20 to o, before q crowd Of $4,000 on Brown Field. Hall Tailed in the final moments Of the first period on q 52-yard run from scrimmage. Hall was of on another scoring play after q s5-yard march late in the third period, when he circled the Maroon left end and crossed the goal from the 7-yard line. The third Bruin touchdown was scored by John O’Leary after he had intercepted an aerial. In six plays from the 27-yard line O’Leary scored around the Maroon right end.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BALL M {A{5SW{5TS Ne

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 10, 1938, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOT BALL M {A{5SW{5TS Ne The following are scores of prln- cipal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Washington o; U.CL.A. 13. Texas A and M O. Santa Clara T. North Dakota State 0; Idaho 27. Washington State 0; Stanford S. Portland O.; Oregon State 19. College of the Pacific 0; Califor- mia 39. Centenary 6; Southwestern of Memphis o. Duquesne c; Pittsburgh 27. Tulane IT; North Carolina IA. LaFayette 0; Brown 20. Duke ?; Colgate 0. Waynesburg O; Fordham 5. Dartsmouth g; Princeton 0. New York 26; Rutgers 6. Manhattan 6; Holy Cross 19. Columbia 20; Army Is. Yale 0; Pennsylvania 21. Virginia O. Navy S. Chicago ‘; Michigan 45. Washington and Lee 6; West Vir- ginia 6, tie. Lehigh O., Case 0, tie. Carnegie Tech 32; Wittenberg 13. Vanderbilt IA; Kentucky T. Bucknell IA; Penn State O. Virginia Tech 27; William and Mary 0. Cornell 20; Harvard 0. Holy Cross 19; Manhattan 6. Drake O.; Northwestern B. Purdue 0; Minnesota ‘. Auburn 0: Tennessee T. Alabama IA; North Carolina State 0. Missouri 13 Kansas State 21. Southern California IA: Ohio State ‘. California Aggies 0; California 43. Indiana 2; Illinois 12. Wisconsin 31; Iowa 13 Baylor g; Arkansas 6. Iowa State 8; Nebraska ‘. Oklahoma 13 Texas 0. Notre Dame IA; Georgia Tech 6.

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)

Brown 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Brown leads 5–⁠3 in eight meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1964Brown 20, Lafayette 3
1942Brown 7, Lafayette 0
1941Brown 13, Lafayette 0
1938Brown 20, Lafayette 0
1912Brown 21, Lafayette 7
1908Lafayette 8, Brown 6

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