Temple at Boston College
Saturday, October 12, 1940 Share
Boston College beat Temple 33–20. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Boston College led the series 2–1–2.
FinalHigh 75°F, low 44°FAttendance 28,000
In the newspapers

The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 14, 1940, page 1 (results column)
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Football Scores SATURDAY, Oct. 12, (P) - Michigan State 20-Purduc Il Columbia 20-Dartmouth Colgate 20-BroWn 3 Navy 12-Princeton 6 Fordham 20-Tulane ‘ Southern Methodisct Pitts burg ‘ Syracuse AZ New York Uni versity 13 Cornell 45-Army 0 Pennsylvania 50-Yale ‘ North Carolina 21 - Texas Christian II Holy Cross 18-Carnegie Tech 0. Michigan 26-Hardvard 0 Boston College 33-Temple 20 Nebraska 13-Indiana 2 Notre Dame-26 Georgia Tech 26. Southern Cal. 13-Illinois Ohio State 3-Northwestern 6 Mississippi 28-Georgia IA Missouri 24-Kansas State l3 Wisconsin 12-IoWa 30 West Virginia 13-Penn State IT, Auburn 7-Mississippi State ‘ Lake Forrest 0-Clemson 39 Tennessee 53-Chattanooga 0 Oklahoma 16-Texas 19 Kentucky 7-Vanderbilt T. Washington 10-Oregon 0. Gonzaga 25-Idaho 0 Washington 9-California 6 Stanford 7-Santa Clara 6 Texas A and M 7-Ucla 0
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)
Boston College 81% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Temple–Boston College gameBoston College leads 30–7–2 in 39 meetings, counting the 34 since this game.
Around this game
Temple
- Next gamevs. Michigan StateOct. 18, 1940
- SeasonTemple in 1940
- ProgramTemple history and records
Boston College
- Next gamevs. IdahoOct. 19, 1940
- SeasonBoston College in 1940
- ProgramBoston College history and records

