Richmond at Duke

Saturday, September 24, 1949

Duke beat Richmond 67–⁠0. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Duke led the series 7–⁠1.

AwayRichmond3–⁠7 in 1949
0
HomeDuke6–⁠3 in 1949
67

FinalHigh 72°F, low 45°FAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Duke Takes Richmond With Ease, 81 10 0 club here. That was a 67-0 deci- sion over Wake Forest in 1888.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, September 25, 1949, page 44

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    Duke Takes Richmond With Ease, 81 10 0 club here. That was a 67–⁠0 decision over Wake Forest in 1888. club here. That was a 67–⁠0 decision over Wake Forest in 1888. Cox started the scoring parade with 30-yard run early in the first period. Before he got through he had turned in two more touchdowns for top place in the scoring. His other tallies came on runs Of “a and IL yards. Mounie, whom Richmond found almost impossible to stop, banged over for two scores from short distances out. and his understudy, Paul Stephanz, accounted for two others on smashes of IL yards and l yard. Tailback George Skipworth, Friedlund,, and End Ceep YOU mans, recruited from Dukes .basketball team, got one touchdown each.

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)

Duke 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Duke leads 9–⁠4 in 13 meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
2011Richmond 23, Duke 21
2009Richmond 24, Duke 16
2006Richmond 13, Duke 0
1979Duke 34, Richmond 7
1950Duke 41, Richmond 0
1949Duke 67, Richmond 0

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