South Carolina at Marquette
Saturday, November 5, 1949 Share
South Carolina beat Marquette 6–3. It was their first meeting; after it, South Carolina led the series 1–0.
Final
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 6, 1949, page 41
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South Carolina Is Winner Over Marquette, s 10 ; MILWAUKEE,, Nov. 5.-South Carolina’s Gamecocks marched “a yards in nine plays today to push over q last-quarter touch down and defeat Marquette, 6–3. The loss snapped a four-game home winning streak for Mar quette. The Southern Conference Car elinas, cashed in on, their only scoring threat Of the day early in the fourth period after Mar quette had taken q 80 lead on a 27-yard field goal by Joe Mas naghetti. Charley Prezioso returned the kickoff II yards to his own 27yard line and eight running plays later Harold Hagan crashed through on a quarterback sneak from the Marquette 1-yard stripe for the days only touchdown.
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)
Marquette 61% to win. South Carolina won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every South Carolina–Marquette gameSouth Carolina leads 1–0–1 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1950 | Marquette 13, South Carolina 13 | |
| 1949 | South Carolina 6, Marquette 3 |
Around this game
South Carolina
- Next gameat MiamiNov. 11, 1949
- SeasonSouth Carolina in 1949
- ProgramSouth Carolina history and records
Marquette
- Next gameat PurdueNov. 12, 1949
- SeasonMarquette in 1949
- ProgramMarquette history and records
