Santa Clara at Michigan State

Saturday, October 29, 1938

No. 5 Santa Clara beat Michigan State 7–⁠6. It was their first meeting; after it, Santa Clara led the series 1–⁠0.

Away5Santa Clara6–⁠2 in 1938
7
HomeMichigan State6–⁠3 in 1938
6

FinalHigh 60°F, low 32°F

In the newspapers

  • The The potters herald's story

    The potters herald, East Liverpool, Ohio, November 3, 1938, page 6 (results column)

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    rier on the field, however, so should be able to pull Fordham out in front 4 x X Georgia Tech Kentucky.-0nce again it is too bad for Old Kaintuck. X X X Idaho o-Oregop.-About time for a comeback by Oregon. 4 4 4 Iowa. Minnesota. A tumble last week gave Minnesota her first defeat after marvellous goal-line stands. The Gophers can afford to tumble quite a few times this week, even if the So ciety editor is riling up the Hawkeyes. Kansas Nebraska can’t seem to win a game, but then they haven’t played Kansas yet. Nebraska. x X X Kansas State -OklahOma.-The edge was taken from this game when State lost an upset to Kansas. They were looking too far ahead. Oklahoma will have to be on guard, but should win. X X X Lafayette-Penn State.-What ever happened to Penn State last week? If they don’t let the secret get away from them, they can win another. X X X Lehigh- New York U.-NYU didn’t hit the headlines by upsetting Ohio State-and they thought they would, but they can win Saturday. l.. S. U.-Missisippi State.-Mississippi State will be easier to stop than was Tennessee, so mark up one for the Tigers. Michigan–P Pennsylvania – Michigan should make better showing against this eastern foe than they did against Yale, and they beat Yale. X X X Michigan State -MissOuri.-A 7–⁠6 defeat is enough to discourage most any team, but State will plod along to an other victory. Mississippi-St. Louis. OF Miss looks good for another one this week. X X x Montana -GOnZaga. - The Grizzlies from Montana look set for this one. X X x Navy–NOtre Dame.-This is prob ably the best coached Notre Dame team since the days of Rockne. More good material can be found here than on any other campus. Three teams of almost equal strength should be more than enough to wear down Navy. X X X North CarOlina-V. p. 1.-The Tar Heels have the strength to turn this game with VPI into track meet. X X X North Carolina State Manhattan Looks like the New Workers. x X X North Dakota -DetrOit.-The Sioux sport a beaut of backfield but they will probably fail to score against Detroit. Detroit rather easily. x X X NOrthwestern-W Wisconsin. - If Car negie is in a good spot to bowl over Pitt, what do you think of North Westerns chances of going along with out touchdown being scored against her as yet. After the bruising battle with Minnesota, the Wildcats can’t help but have an off day. Z. and they can’t be off too far or Wisconsin will be tearing Chicago apart Saturday night. Just the same, Northwestern by the closest margin. X X X Ohio State–Purdue.-Purdue hasn’t been quite the same team since play ing Minnesota. Fordham and Iowa have both been able to hold the Boiler makers to tie scores. Believing them not to be fully recovered even yet, we pick State in hair raiser. X X x Princeton Rut gers. The Tigers tail is in jeopardy again. Princeton will win, but only after tough struggle. Santa Clara San Francisco. - The broncos, back to the coast after walk ing all oyer Michigan for one point win last week should keep right on going and take S. +. with touchdowns to spare. X X x Stanford Washington. - No one seems able to explain what has come over the Washington team With back field material all the way from here to there and plenty of good linemen except at center, the team has been unable to hit anything approaching a stride. Stanford is not so good, but can win this one on what Washington has shown to date. X X X Tennessee Chattanooga. - The Vols are just resting for their game with Vandy next week. X Texas A. 4 MS. NJ. U.-Todd will take the ApUipS on to aOOt her vict orV

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)

Santa Clara 57% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Santa Clara leads 3–⁠1–⁠2 in six meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
1948Michigan State 21, Santa Clara 21
1947Michigan State 28, Santa Clara 0
1941Santa Clara 7, Michigan State 0
1940Santa Clara 0, Michigan State 0
1939Santa Clara 6, Michigan State 0
1938Santa Clara 7, Michigan State 6

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