Utah at Denver

Friday, October 6, 1944

Denver beat Utah 28–⁠12. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Utah led the series 17–⁠5–⁠3.

AwayUtah5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1944
12
HomeDenver4–⁠3–⁠2 in 1944
28

FinalAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: kRAMI(I0 5 STAR, DENVER-U UTAH GAME

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 7, 1944, page 1

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    kRAMI(I0 5 STAR, DENVER-U UTAH GAME DENVER, Colo, Oct. 7.-Johnny Kram.cio’s 100 yard runback after Utah’s opening kickoff gave Den- yer quick start to the final score of 28 to 12 in a romp over the Utah Pioneers re-entry into the Rocky Mountain States football conference after years absence.

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)

Denver 57% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Utah leads 28–⁠10–⁠5 in 43 meetings, counting the 18 since this game.

Recent meetings
1960Utah 49, Denver 16
1959Utah 26, Denver 12
1958Utah 20, Denver 16
1957Denver 12, Utah 7
1956Utah 27, Denver 13
1955Utah 27, Denver 7

Around this game

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