West Virginia at Temple
Friday, October 19, 1945 Share
Temple beat West Virginia 28–12. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Temple led the series 5–1.
FinalHigh 78°F, low 50°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 22, 1945, page 10 (results column)
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Ohio State, Georgia Still Hold Attention Despite Whippings count. Harry Gilmer again was Alabama’s big gun as he completed IL Of 20 passes for $50 yards. Maryland was the only other major undefeated college team to topple, Virginia Tech staging the 21–13 surprise party. The Nations top trio, Army, Navy and Notre Dame, maintained their forward march, although Navy took quite battering and needed the breaks to derail the engineers from Georgia Tech, 2o-6. The Middies will have to be at the top of their game Saturday when they meet the rested, all-winning Pennsylvania combination. Davis, Blanchard Romp. Army had first-period jitters against the Melville Torpedo Boat Raiders, but Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard quickly took care of the situation with three touchdowns apiece for a 55-l3 triumph. Notre Dame received spirited flrst-half opposition from pepped-up Pitts burgh eleven, and called on frankie Dancewicz to unlimber his pitching arm for the 39–9 conquest. Army shouldn’t have too much trouble against Duke in New York while Hughie Devore probably will clear the bench against Iowa. Other all-winning teams and their Saturdays victims included: East-Columbia, 3l-7 over Col gate; Holy Cross, $50 over Brown Temple, 28–12 over West Virginia Friday night. South-Mississippi State, 1876 over the Eastern Flying Training Gen. ter Eagles. Virginia was idle.) Midwest – Indiana, 1920 over Iowa; Tulsa, 400 over Nevada; Oklahoma A. and M. 1876 over Utah. Southwest-Texas, 34–7 over Ar kansas. e....--.... Far West-St. Mary’s, $50 over Mcclellan Field.
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 68% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every West Virginia–Temple gameWest Virginia leads 24–12 in 36 meetings, counting the 30 since this game.
Around this game
West Virginia
- Next gamevs. MarylandOct. 27, 1945
- SeasonWest Virginia in 1945
- ProgramWest Virginia history and records
Temple
- Next gameat PittsburghOct. 27, 1945
- SeasonTemple in 1945
- ProgramTemple history and records

