Marquette at Michigan State

Saturday, October 1, 1949

Michigan State beat Marquette 48–⁠7. It was their 15th meeting; after it, Michigan State led the series 9–⁠5–⁠1.

AwayMarquette4–⁠5 in 1949
7
HomeMichigan State6–⁠3 in 1949
48

FinalAttendance 29,992

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: STATISTICS. Michigan State Passes Beat Marquette, &-7

    Evening star, October 2, 1949, page 36

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    STATISTICS. Michigan State Passes Beat Marquette, &-7 EAST LANSING, Mich, Oct. /. Michigan State unleashed q spectacularly successful passing attack to overpower Marquette, 1877, in the nineteenth meeting between the midwestern rivals here today. A throng of 80, ,101 saw Michigan State come through with an ava lanche Of aerials, most OF them tossed by senior Quarterback Gene Click. The throwing accounted for three of the seven touchdowns and set up two others. Lynn Chandnois ran for two scores and Sonny Grandelius and Frank Waters made the others for the Spartans. Clicks best throw was 66-yard pass to end Dorne Dibble. Click and Bob Ciolek both tossed touch down passes to Bob Carey.

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 82% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Michigan State leads 15–⁠5–⁠1 in 21 meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1955Michigan State 33, Marquette 0
1954Michigan State 40, Marquette 10
1953Michigan State 21, Marquette 15
1952Michigan State 62, Marquette 13
1951Michigan State 20, Marquette 14
1950Michigan State 34, Marquette 6

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