Colgate at Northwestern

Saturday, November 12, 1949

Northwestern beat Colgate 39–⁠20. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayColgate1–⁠8 in 1949
20
HomeNorthwestern4–⁠5 in 1949
39

FinalHigh 67°F, low 53°F, 0.6 in. of rainAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Northwestern Downs Colgate, 1870, 10 End .3-Game Losing Streak

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 13, 1949, page 46

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    Northwestern Downs Colgate, 1870, 10 End .3-Game Losing Streak EVANSTON, Ill.,, Nov. 12.- Northwestern, the faded Rose Bowl champions. leaped out from under a three-game losing streak today to maui Colgate. 1920, in an intersectional football game. The Red Raiders, making their first invasion of the Western Conference region since beating Iowa, 14-O. in 1898, were dropped for their sixth straight loss of the season. But the crowd of 10000 Dads Day” rooters saw the Colgate out fit battle until exhausted. At least six Of its players had to be helped of the field-mostly from being played out-only to return as soon as they caught their breath. Northwestern. paced on the ground by Gaspar Perricone, Johnny Miller and Art Murakowski, scored in every quarter, piling up a 300 first-period edge. Don Burson’s passing accounted for most Of Northwestern’s 80 yards through the air. -

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)

Northwestern 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Northwestern leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

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