West Virginia at Fordham

Saturday, October 18, 1941

No. 4 Fordham beat West Virginia 27–⁠0. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Fordham led the series 6–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayWest Virginia4–⁠6 in 1941
0
Home4Fordham8–⁠1 in 1941
27

FinalAttendance 12,500

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)

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    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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Fordham 84% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Fordham leads 8–⁠3–⁠1 in 12 meetings, counting the four since this game.

Recent meetings
1954West Virginia 39, Fordham 9
1950Fordham 27, West Virginia 23
1946West Virginia 39, Fordham 0
1942Fordham 23, West Virginia 14
1941Fordham 27, West Virginia 0
1940Fordham 20, West Virginia 7

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