Denver at Drake

Saturday, October 20, 1945

Denver and Drake tied 19–⁠19. It was their third meeting; after it, Denver led the series 2–⁠0–⁠1.

AwayDenver4–⁠5–⁠1 in 1945
19
HomeDrake5–⁠4–⁠1 in 1945
19

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 20, 1945, page 1

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    FOOTBALL SCORES Following are final scores of foot ball games played last night: St. Mary’s Pre-Flight, 13; UCLA, G. Temple, 23; West Virginia, l2. Miami (Fla.), T, Florida, 6. Denver, 19; Drake, 19-tie. Wilberforce, 42; Kentucky State, 37. Chattanooga, AT; Howard, T. Murray, 13, Tennessee Tech, ‘. Colorado State, 50; Eastern New Mexico, 6.

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)

Drake 62% to win.

Denver leads 6–⁠2–⁠1 in nine meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1955Denver 33, Drake 7
1954Denver 33, Drake 13
1953Denver 33, Drake 14
1952Denver 27, Drake 19
1951Drake 20, Denver 7
1950Drake 7, Denver 0

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