Colgate at Yale
Saturday, October 5, 1946 Share
Yale beat Colgate 27–6. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Yale led the series 7–2.
FinalHigh 81°F, low 40°FAttendance 38,000
In the newspapers

The Waterbury Democrat, October 7, 1946, page 10
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State cams Went We’ll Connecticut College teams fared well in the weekend football wars, with four victories and a single de- feat, and were back in training to- day for fresh encounters this con- ing Saturday. Yale forged on with an unde- feated record by whipping Colgate 27–6 to add to its previous 33–0 de- feat of iKngs Point. Coast Guard also made it two in a row by bowling over Amherst 14–13 in the final period with Quar- terback Sid Vaughn hurling the tieing touchdown pass to even the score and Hathaway booting the winning point. The week before the Sadets rolled over Renssalaer 33–0 The University of Connecticut Huskies, who bowed TO to Harvard two Saturdays ago, opened up their home schedule by blanking Spring field College 25–0 without having to call up their high-scoring ace, Walt Trojanowski. Wesleyan, after a wartime lay of, opened its schedule in Penn sylvania by shutting out Swarth- more 26–0 while Trinity returned to the gridiron after four years only to fall a victim to Bates 25–0 at Hartford. Trouble Ahead Yale tackles the biggest job o1 any of the five Connecticut teams this Saturday in meeting Colum- bias Lions who toppled favored Navy 23–14 two days ago. A final period touchdown and field goa turned the trick. Other games this week: Connec- ticut vs. Wesleyan at Middletown Trinity vs. Middlebury at Middle bury, and Coast Guard vs. Colby al New London.

Evening star, October 7, 1946, page 11 (results column)
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NEW YORK, Oct. Texas, Notre Dame and Army-the big three of college football at this stage of the campaign-face busy after noon next Saturday, with the Grip pied Cadets taking on the toughest chore of the trio. After hurdling Villanova, Okla homa and Cornell with various degrees of success, Army now runs smack into a powerful Michigan crew also shooting for a place among the Nations leaders. The Cadets, playing without the injured Doc Blanchard for the second straight week, rolled over Cornell, 1921, Saturday while Michigan stopped Iowa, 14–7, for its second Western Conference success. Texas meets Oklahoma in their annual State Fair classic at Dallas. AS the Sooners were squeaking past Texas A. and M, 10–7, last week, the Long Horns crushed Oklahoma A. and M, 54–6, handing the Aggies their first defeat in % starts. Having piled up 172 points in three games, Texas looks like the No. l power of them all. Notre Dame Meets Purdue. Notre Dame, which breezed past Pittsburgh, 1910, will be at home to take on Purdue, which absorbed a 43–7 beating by an, Illinois team that lost to the Irish by 20 points the previous week. The Army Michigan scuff1e at Ann Arbor. expected to draw 10000, OBJ viously will be the top attraction of the day. Western Conference tussles will send Illinois to Indiana, 21–0 conuueror of Minnesota; Ohio State to Wisconsin and Minnesota to North western. Ohio State won its intersectional duel with Southern Cali fornia, 21–0, Saturday, while North western downed Wisconsin, $50. In the East, Columbia and Yale will get together at New Haven for a battle between two unbeaten clubs, and Dartmouth, fresh from 21–14 triumph over Syracuse, moves in against powerful Pennsylvania, which smothered Lafayette, $50. Columbia turned back Navy, 23–14, and Yale topped Colgate, 27–6. Duke, whipped 12–7 by Tennessee, will be at Navy, with both trying to bounce back. Other Eastern head liners will find Penn State at Syracuse, Temple at Pittsburgh, Villa nova at Holy Cross, Rutgers at N. Y. u, Colgate at Cornell, Rhode Island at Brown and Harvard at Prince ton. U. C. L. A. Opposes Stanford. On the other side of the country stout U. G. l.. A., which humbled Washington, 1918, will entertain Stanford, 1877 winner over a good San Francisco club, in the Pacific Coast headliner. Southern Cal, rap idly relinquishing the favorite’s role in the Coast Conference to U. G. L. A., invades Oregon State, and Washington will be at Washington State Southeastern Conference struggiles will send Florida to Vanderbilt, 10 conqueror of Mississippi, and Mississippi to Georgia Tech, 1916 winner over V. NJ I. Tulane, which whipped Florida, 27–13, will enter tain Rice, and Texas A. and M. will visit Louisiana State, 1876 victor over Mississippi State, in. nonconference games. In the Southern Conference,

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 7, 1946, page 3 (results column)
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FOOTBALL d SCORES Scores of. leading football games played last Saturday afternoon are as follows; UCLA 39; Washington 13. Oregon IA; California l3. Washington State 32, Idaho 0. Ohio State 21; use O. Stanford 33; San Francisco ‘. Oregon State 35; Portland 0. Nevada 33; Santa Clara ‘. Calf. Poly 2l; San Diego State l3. Willamette 26; Brit. Columbia 13. Cen. Washington 2l; Whitworth 2 Columbia 23; Navy IA. Dartmouth 20; Syracuse IA Pennsylvania 66; Lafayette 0. Army 46; Cornell 21. Yale 27; Colgate 6. Princeton 33; Brown 12. Harvard 49; Tufts 0. Holy Cross l6; Detroit IA. Penn State AS; Bucknell 6. Boston College 34; Michigan s 20. Indiana 21 Minnesota 10. Northwestern 28; Wisconsin 0. Notre Dame 33 Pittsburgh 0. Nebraska 31; Kansas State 0. Kansas IA; Wichita T. Illinois 43; Purdue ‘.
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)
Colgate 53% to win. Yale won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Colgate–Yale gameYale leads 25–10–3 in 38 meetings, counting the 29 since this game.
| 2016 | Colgate 55, Yale 13 | |
| 2015 | Yale 29, Colgate 28 | |
| 2014 | Yale 45, Colgate 31 | |
| 2013 | Yale 39, Colgate 22 | |
| 2012 | Colgate 47, Yale 24 | |
| 2004 | Yale 31, Colgate 28 |
Around this game
Colgate
- Next gameat CornellOct. 12, 1946
- SeasonColgate in 1946
- ProgramColgate history and records
Yale
- Next gamevs. ColumbiaOct. 12, 1946
- SeasonYale in 1946
- ProgramYale history and records

