Colgate at Brown

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  The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., November 26, 1944, page 8

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  Brown Bears Triumph Over Colgate, 1920 PROVIDENCE, R. l., Nov. 25.- LP-After getting rolling in slow fashion Browns favored Bears put on a terrific second half drive today to gain their first football vic tory in is years ove-- Colgate by a 1920 margin. Going into the third period trail ing rs, the Bruins were spanked by Providence homebred, Quarterback Paul O’Brien, who, after racing IS yards for touchdown, returned Colgate kickoff 80 yards into the Red Raiders end zone to more than decide this final engagement for both teams. Colgate’s sub-normal forces threw an early scare by out-punting the Bruins during a first period duel, thereby setting up their first touchdown, but Brown roared back to take a 1877 lead at the half.

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.

Colgate leads 25–⁠20–⁠7 in 52 meetings, counting the 26 since this game.