Colgate at Army

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 3, 1943, page 15

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  Davis Is Star As Army Wins WEST POINT, Oct. . CUP)- Galloping Glenn Davis, a phantom plebe from Los Angeles, revised West Point memories of Chris eagle and Monkey” Meyer as he led Army’s football forces to a 42–⁠0 victory over highly-regarded Colgate today. The shifty youngster delighted a crowd of 10000 fans at Niche Stadium as he romped to two touchdowns and passed another pair to spark army’s devastating attack. Davis was away TO the races the first time Army got the ball. He circled end AZ yards and scored untouched. Before the final whistle, he had gone 80 yards through the line for another score, ran Ia and passed “a for a third six-pointer and ran “a and passed Is for a fourth.

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  Evening star, October 4, 1943, page 12 (results column)

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  Notre me-Michiqan And Navy–Duke Hold Gridiron Spotlight NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-College football steps into the wings the early part of this week for the World Series but crowds back onto the stage this week end with such contests as Notre Dame at Michigan and Duke visiting Navy. Those two games include four of the Nations best teams and their coming collisions have built up such enthusiasm that Michigan’s acting ticket manager, Andrew Baker. in dlcated that the MidWestern scrap might be sell-out by tomorrow. Notre Dame drubbed Georgia Tech on the accurate flinging of Angelo Bertelli, 55 to l3, to prepare for the Wolverines. The Big Ten club, in turn, doWned Northwestern u to 7, but wasn’t too impressive Duke, which hasn’t been scored upon in three games, punished the North Carolina Pre-Flight outfit. AZ to 0, Navy had almost as easy a time drubbing Cornell, As to 7, and Army crushed Colgate, 42 to 0. Except for the two top games this week ends program lacks luster aside from the meeting of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth in Philadelphia.

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.

Army leads 24–⁠5–⁠2 in 31 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.