BYU at Denver
Friday, October 4, 1946 Share
Denver beat BYU 26–13. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Denver led the series 6–3.
Final
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 5, 1946, page 11 (results column)
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|InferseciionaI Game, Take Top Billing. on |Today’s Grid Card NEW YORK, Oct. 5.AProof that the college football season is well under way is seen in today’s card, which is literally sprinkled with sectional classics. However, for those whose view embraces the Nation as q whole, there are some attractive tntersectional contests, the standout being the clash between Dana Bibles mighty Texas squad and the Okla homa Aggies. The Aggies have not been beaten In 81 games, including two bowl contests, although they were tied last week by outplayed Arkansas. Two good East-West tilts are Boston College and Michigan State and Detroit at Holy Cross. Ohio State, held to an unexpected tie by Missouri, meets Southern Califormia in the headliner on the West Coast. Michigan Meets Iowa. Michigan ana Iowa, two Of last weeks winners in the wide-open scramble for the Big Nine title, meet an Ann Arbor in the Mid VESTS outstanding attraction. Other conference battles pit Illinois and Purdue, Minnesota and Indiana and Northwestern and Wisconsin. Notre Dame has little to fear In its contest with Pittsburgh. In the Big Six opener Kansas State visits Nebraska. Others on the Midwest card are Kansas Wichita and Iowa State Iowa State Teachers. Tennessee engages Duke In the South’s leading game, while Ala bama takes on South Carolina. In the Southeastern Conference the pairings are Louisiana State-Mississippi State, Vanderbilt Mississippi and Tulane-Florida. In the Rocky Mountain area Colo RADIO Aggies- Wyoming, Arizona-Utaf and Utah State-C colorado are the biz offerings, while on the coast Sar Francisco and Stanford, U. G. L. A. Washington and Idaho Washington State get top billing a1ssrsSl Princeton Faces Brown. The Easts Ivy League teams an generally engaged against outsid. competition, although Princeton meets Brown within the group Pennsylvania,. rated the potentia Eastern champion, figures to have an opening day romp with Lafay. ette. Dartmouth tangles with Syracuse, Yale meets Colgate and Harward faces Tufts. Army for the second week viii have to get along without Dor Blanchard in its contest with Cor. nell. Navy and Columbia, both unimpressive in last weeks openers meet in New York, and Penn State opens with Buckneu. The Friday night fans saw some thrillers In st. Louis 1914 win over Missouri, Villanova’s 26–13 defeat o1 Marquette and Denver’s 26–13 vic. tory over Brigham Young. In an intersectional match al Philadelphia Georgia uncorked 6 second half offensive to overpowel Temple, 35–7. North Carolins blanked Miami, 21–0.
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)
Denver 60% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every BYU–Denver gameDenver leads 15–7 in 22 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.
| 1960 | BYU 19, Denver 6 | |
| 1959 | Denver 14, BYU 7 | |
| 1958 | BYU 22, Denver 7 | |
| 1957 | BYU 25, Denver 6 | |
| 1956 | Denver 58, BYU 34 | |
| 1955 | Denver 33, BYU 0 |
Around this game
BYU
- Next gamevs. UtahOct. 12, 1946
- SeasonBYU in 1946
- ProgramBYU history and records
Denver
- Next gamevs. Colorado StateOct. 12, 1946
- SeasonDenver in 1946
- ProgramDenver history and records
