Temple at Boston College

Saturday, October 12, 1940

Boston College beat Temple 33–⁠20. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Boston College led the series 2–⁠1–⁠2.

AwayTemple4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1940
20
HomeBoston College11–⁠0 in 1940
33

FinalHigh 75°F, low 44°FAttendance 28,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    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.

Boston College leads 30–⁠7–⁠2 in 39 meetings, counting the 34 since this game.

Recent meetings
2021Boston College 28, Temple 3
2018Boston College 45, Temple 35
2004Boston College 34, Temple 17
2003Boston College 38, Temple 13
2002Boston College 36, Temple 14
2001Boston College 33, Temple 10

Around this game

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