Colorado College at Colorado

Saturday, October 23, 1943

No. 18 Colorado College beat Colorado 16–⁠6. It was their 35th meeting; after it, Colorado led the series 23–⁠9–⁠3.

Away18Colorado College7–⁠0 in 1943
16
HomeColorado5–⁠2 in 1943
6

FinalHigh 55°F, low 35°F

In the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: WEEKEND TAKES TOLL AS GRID LEADERS FALL

    Imperial Valley press, California, October 25, 1943, page 4 (results column)

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    WEEKEND TAKES TOLL AS GRID LEADERS FALL NEW YORK, Oct. 25. CUP)-Absentism reached new high in the select group of unbeaten and united football teams today when only 10 perfect record squads were on hand to answer the Monday roll call. Those present and accounted for included Notre Dame, Army, Navy and Pennsylvania, robust uuartet which will square off next SATURDAY. IN two of the top games of the year Notre Dame meets Navy at Cleveland and Army plays Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Some of the others have similarly stiff opposition in the offing, al though most should squeeze by un- Scathed once more. Purdue, dominating early season competition in the Big Ten, plavS Wisconsin, Iowa Pre-Flight, bidding Tor recognition as the nations top service teams opposes Fort Riley, Kan, Cavalry, and Tulsa meets once beaten Southwestern. Colorado College kept pace last weekend by sidetracking previously unbeaten Colorado 16 to 6 and southern California kept it’s goal line uncroSSed with a hard earned t to 0 victory over College of Pacific previously unbeaten. The other unbeaten teams which tumbled from the ranks were Southwestern, which was upset by Southwest Louisiana institute II to and March Field n to 7 loser to Washington. Texas A. q MS perfect slate was SPOILED by scoreleSS tie with North Texas Aggies. ‘‘‘‘ Accurate Angelo Bertelli and Hurlin’ Hal Hamburg, two passing masters, who have been utilizing air power to keep their teams unbeaten will meet in the Notre Dame navy clash. Bertelli, benched and blanketed through most of Notre Danes AZ to rout of Illinois. threw one touchdown pass and connected with five of seven passes for A yards. All Hamberg did against Georgia Tech was to throw three touchdoWn passes and score a touchdown himself in Navy’s % to IA victory. “ Two highly geared running Of 1enslVes collide in the Army–Penn game. Army’s breakaway backs have scored I’ll points in five games Whlle Penn has made 202 points in its five tests. Both Army and Penn pulled punches in their weekend victories Army pouring in subs to trounce Yale 80 to 7, while Penn put its first team on part time shift in besting Columbia 33 to O.

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)

Colorado 82% to win. Colorado College won as Elo’s underdog.

Colorado leads 27–⁠10–⁠3 in 40 meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
1945Colorado 31, Colorado College 0
1945Colorado 13, Colorado College 0
1944Colorado 40, Colorado College 6
1944Colorado 28, Colorado College 0
1943Colorado College 6, Colorado 0
1943Colorado College 16, Colorado 6

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