Temple at Ursinus

Saturday, October 16, 1943

Ursinus beat Temple 10–⁠6. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayTemple2–⁠6 in 1943
6
HomeUrsinus1–⁠0 in 1943
10

FinalHigh 78°F, low 62°F

In the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: Southwestern Trumps Farmers

    Imperial Valley press, October 17, 1943, page 4

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    Southwestern Trumps Farmers Little Southwestern University OF Georgetown, Tex, maintained its position as one of the nations untied and undefeated teams Friday night by trouncing the North Texas Aggies, 26–⁠0, in the second game of the year between the two schools. Southwestern won the first of the home -and-home affairs, 300. Packed with marine and naval trainees on loan” from former grid powers, Southwestern won easily with the highlight of the game coming in the third period when Spot Collins broke away for 70 yards and a touchdown. At Miami, Fla, the University of Miami Hurricanes swamped Camp Gordon, Ga, 51–⁠6. Spearheaded by a backfield of freshmen and naval enrollees, Miami scored almost al will, two of it’s touchdowns coming in the first six minutes Of play Nearly 1900 watched the game played in the Orange Bowl Stadium At Philadelphia, Ursinus College gave its coach, Pete Stevens, { going away present with a l0-f triumph over Temple. Stevens, who enters the army this week, saw his team score it’s first touchdown Of the season on a 25-yard pass in the opening period. The Owls SCORED in the third quarters but Dear Steward, who had tossed the touch down pass, kicked a 23-yard fielo goal for Ursinus in the last period OTHER GRID RESULTS Cape Girardeau 27; Warrensbur{ Teachers 0. Southwestern University CTexas, 26; North Texas Aggies 0. University of Miami 81; Caml Gordon 6. Ursinus 10; Temple 6.

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)

Temple 76% to win. Ursinus pulled the upset.

Ursinus leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

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