Boston College vs. Ole Miss

Saturday, October 23, 1948 Share

No. 20 Ole Miss beat Boston College 32–⁠13. It was their first meeting; after it, Ole Miss led the series 1–⁠0.

Neutral siteBoston College5–⁠2–⁠2 in 1948

Neutral site20Ole Miss8–⁠1 in 1948

FinalHigh 78°F, low 47°FAttendance 23,000

In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, October 25, 1948, page 3 (results column)
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&1AsAikg8 5 ga Agiklg8@6 FOOTBALL { SCORES Here are the final football scores of games played over the weekend: Wash ngton 0; California 2l. Oregon State 28; UCLA O. Idaho 39 Montana O. Southern California T; Stanford 6. Washington State T: Oregon 33. East Texas State IS; West Texas :. Utah 20; Brigham Young T. St. Marys 33; Denver g. Boston College 13; Mississippi 32. Syracuse O; Northwestern 48. Temple T, Oklahoma ARM 41. Tennessee Tech. 0; Tennessee Al. Toledo 2l; Springfield IA. Connecticut G. Brown 49. Case 26; Carnegie Tech 20 Miami 21; Ohio University 0. North Carolina State ‘; Chatta- looga 0. Tufts 13; Williams IA. Kentucky 25; Marquette 0. Cincinnati 16; Butler T. Iowa State ‘; Missouri 49. Michigan 27: Minnesota IA. Maryland 47 George Washington 0. Bates 31 Maine 0. Duke ‘; Virginia Tech. 0. Michigan State fl: Penn State IA. Wesleyan 27; Amherst 0. Lafayette 19; Bucknell ‘. Florida T; Georgia Tech 42. Notre Dame 27; Iowa 12. Nebraska T; Kansas 27. Alahama 10; Mississippi State ‘. Purdue 6; Illinois 10. Vanderbilt 35; Yale 0. Ariny 27; Cornell 6. Dartmouth IA; Harvard T Colgate IA; Holy Gross 13. Wisconsin 32; Ono State 34 Norwich c; Coast Guard 19. Wash. & Lee T; West Virginia 14. William & Mary 6; St. Bonaven- lure T. Indiana 14; Pitt 21. LSU T; North Carolina 34. Princeton IS; Columbia II. Navy 14; Penn, 20.

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.

On the newsreel

OLE MISS 32, BOSTON COLLEGE 13Pigskin thrills are sure-fire in this clash between old rivals. The visiting Yanks unleash two tallies in the final quarter but the Rebels go on to win by a big marginUniversal Newsreel, October 28, 1948. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Ole Miss 54% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Boston College–Ole Miss game

Ole Miss leads 3–⁠0–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1951	Ole Miss 34, Boston College 7
1950	Ole Miss 54, Boston College 0
1949	Ole Miss 25, Boston College 25
1948	Ole Miss 32, Boston College 13

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