Wake Forest at Marshall
Saturday, November 1, 1941 Share
Marshall beat Wake Forest 16–6. It was their third meeting; Wake Forest leads the series 2–1.
FinalHigh 68°F, low 52°F, 0.15 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 2, 1941, page 41
Read the text
MarshaII’s Last-HaIf Rally Brings 1915 Upset Of Deacons HUNTINGTON, w. Va. Nov. l R).-The Marshall laundering Herd, corralled by favored Wake Forest through two quarters of their joust before crowd of 10000 today. stainpeded in the final half and trampled the Deacons, 16 to 6. After 80 minutes of “stand-themup-and-knock- -them-down” football, the Deacons appeared to have the situation in hand. They had blanketed one Marshall scoring threat which carried to the 5-yard line and put on a touchdown drive which carried 80 yards. But after scoring early in the final half and adding the extra point, Marshall continued on a ram page and added unneeded points in the last quarter.
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)
Wake Forest 88% to win. Marshall pulled the upset.
The series
Every Wake Forest–Marshall gameWake Forest leads 2–1 in three meetings.
| 1941 | Marshall 16, Wake Forest 6 | |
| 1940 | Wake Forest 31, Marshall 19 | |
| 1939 | Wake Forest 14, Marshall 13 |
Around this game
Wake Forest
- Next gameat Boston CollegeNov. 8, 1941
- SeasonWake Forest in 1941
- ProgramWake Forest history and records
Marshall
- SeasonMarshall in 1941
- ProgramMarshall history and records

