Michigan State at Miami

Friday, November 23, 1945

Miami beat Michigan State 21–⁠7. It was their first meeting; after it, Miami led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayMichigan State5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1945
7
HomeMiami9–⁠1–⁠1 in 1945
21

FinalHigh 71°F, low 52°FAttendance 21,327

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: NAME HOLY CROSS TO ORANGE BOWL

    The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 26, 1945, page 2

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    NAME HOLY CROSS TO ORANGE BOWL MIAMI, Fla, Nov. 25.-W.D-- Holy Cross college of Worchester, Mass, has officially received and accepted an invitation to play in the Orange Bowl football game here on New Years Day, 1t was announced today by George E.. Whitten, president Of the Orange Bowl committee. The announcement followed the Holy Cross sweeping 46–⁠0 victory ever Boston College today. Orange Bowl committeeman made no statement regarding ar opponent for the eastern team. If custom is followed some South eastern Conference eleven would be selected. In recent days, however, local sports, writers have been beating the drums for a home town team the University of Miami. The local Hurricanes are rounding out one of their best season including 8 21–⁠7 victory over Michigan State here Friday. Spearheaded by All American candidate Stan Kowlowski, Holy Cross has won eight of nine games, losing only to Temple 1915. Holy Cross, Kingpin of New England football this fall, has never played in a post-season bowl game.

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)

Michigan State 58% to win. Miami won as Elo’s underdog.

Miami leads 4–⁠1 in five meetings, counting the four since this game.

Recent meetings
2021Michigan State 38, Miami 17
1989Miami 26, Michigan State 20
1982Miami 25, Michigan State 22
1959Miami 18, Michigan State 13
1945Miami 21, Michigan State 7

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