Colgate at Duke

Saturday, October 18, 1941

No. 3 Duke beat Colgate 27–⁠14. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Duke led the series 6–⁠0.

AwayColgate3–⁠3–⁠2 in 1941
14
Home3Duke9–⁠1 in 1941
27

FinalHigh 83°F, low 45°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BALL @ A{3SWG IFS Mr

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 20, 1941, page 5 (results column)

    Read the text

    FOOT BALL @ A{3SWG IFS Mr The following are final scores of important football games played last Saturday afternoon: UCLA T; University of Washing ton IA. California T. oregon 19. use T; Washington State 6. Idaho 16; Utah State o. Gonzaga 6; Montana 13. Michigan State o; Santa Clara T. University of San Francisco 26 Stanford 42. Ohio State 16; Purdue IA. Harvard 2; Dartmouth o. Penn 23; Princeton 0. Syracuse 31; University of New York 0. Army 20; Yale 2. Georgia T; Columbia 3. Mississippi 21; Holy Cross 0. Fordham 27; West Virginia 0. Brown 28; Tufts 6. Bucknell 6; Boston University o. Duke 27; Colgate 14. Oklahoma 16; Kansas State 0. Minnesota 39; Pittsburgh 0. Indiana 21; Nebraska l3. Wisconsin 23; Iowa 0. Boston College 26: Manhattan 13. Maryland 13; Florida 12. Illinois 40; Drake o. Alabama 9; Tennessee 2. Missouri 39; Iowa l3.

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.

Photos from the game

  • Scanned from the 1942 edition of The Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke University
    Scanned from the 1942 edition of The Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke UniversityPhoto: Duke University, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Scanned from the 1942 edition of The Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke University
    Scanned from the 1942 edition of The Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke UniversityPhoto: Duke University, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Scanned from the 1942 edition of The Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke University
    Scanned from the 1942 edition of The Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke UniversityPhoto: Duke University, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Duke 80% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Duke leads 9–⁠0 in nine meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1991Duke 42, Colgate 14
1987Duke 41, Colgate 6
1942Duke 34, Colgate 0
1941Duke 27, Colgate 14
1940Duke 13, Colgate 0
1939Duke 37, Colgate 0

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