Bogue Field at Duke
Saturday, September 29, 1945 Share
Duke beat Bogue Field 76–0. It was their only meeting on record.
FinalHigh 88°F, low 60°FAttendance 2,500
In the newspapers

The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, September 30, 1945, page 1
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DEVILS SET MARK; BLAST B0CUE. 76–0 DURHAM, Sept. 29.-W.D-Duke University’s Southern Conference champions ran up new scoring record here today to defeat the Bogue Field Marines 76–0 in ar abbreviated game. What the score might have beer is a question mark had the two coaches. not agreed to play nine minute quarters in the last half. The Blue Devils, easily the south’s top-ranking eleven, struck hard and fast. Spanked by shifty George Clark, Wilson, NC. the first score came in less than six min utes. Clark made the 80 yard run touchdown off left tackle behind the blocking of John Krisza. Wingback Gordon Carver, few minutes later, intercepted a pass on his own IL and twisted and pull ed his way the remainder of the field for the score. During the remainder of the half, the second, third, fourth and fifth teams continued the slaughter. At half time the score was 49,. Duke ran up 16 first downs against Bogue Fields 2; and gained a net AT on the ground against Bogue’s /.

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 1, 1945, page 3 (results column)
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FOOTBALL SCORES Following are the final scores of leading football games played last Saturday: East Navy, 49; Villanova, O. Army, 32; AAF Personnel Dis tribution Command, 0. Colgate, 48; Rochester, 0. Cornell, 19; Bucknell, 8. Yale, 27; Tufts, T. Penn State, AT; Muhlenberg, T. Boston College, l3; Squantum Navy, 0. Holy Cross, 13: Dartmouth, 6. Pennsylvania, 30; Brown, Q. Connecticut, 46; Worcester, 0. Franklin & Marshall, T. Swarth- more; ‘ (tie) Columbia, 40; Lafayette, IA. Midwest Indiana, 2; Northwestern, ‘ ttie). Michigan, 40; Michigan State, 0. Ohio State, AT; Missouri, 6. Purdue, 20; Great Lakes, 6. Oklahoma, 20; Nebraska, o. Wisconsin, 40j Marquette, 13. Iowa, IA; Bergstrom Field, l3. Notre Dame, ‘; Illinois, 0. Oberlin, 34; Denison, IA. Muskingum, 0; Otterbein, 0 ttie). :. Bowling Green, 6; Ohio Univer- sity, 0. Kansas, 20; Denver, l9 South Georgia Tech, 20; North Carolina, A. Georgia, 20 Clemson, 0. Duke, 76; Bogue Field, 0. Southwest Texas Christian, T; Baylor, 6. Mississippi State, 31 South West Louisiana Institute, 0. South Carolina, 40; Presbyterian, O. Virginia, 2S; North Carolina State, 6. Tennessee, 2; Wake Forest, 6. Vanderbilt, 12; Tennessee Poly, O. Southwest Oklahoma A & M, 19; Arkansas, IA. Texas, 46; Southwestern, O. Midwest Iowa State, AS; Iowa State Teachers, 13. West Colorado, IS; Colorado College, 0. Nevada, 33; Utah, IS. Southern California, l3; Cali fornia, 2. Washington, 20; Oregon, 6. Washington State, 43; Idaho, l2. UCLA, 20: San Diego Navy, IA. Oregon State, IA; Camp Beale, l4 (tie).
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)
Duke 94% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Bogue Field–Duke gameDuke leads 1–0 in their only meeting.
Around this game
Bogue Field
- SeasonBogue Field in 1945
- ProgramBogue Field history and records
Duke
- Next gamevs. NavyOct. 6, 1945
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