Kentucky at Villanova

Saturday, October 21, 1950

No. 4 Kentucky beat Villanova 34–⁠7. It was their third meeting; after it, Kentucky led the series 2–⁠0–⁠1.

Away4Kentucky11–⁠1 in 1950
34
HomeVillanova4–⁠5 in 1950
7

FinalHigh 70°F, low 37°FAttendance 17,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Saturdays Grid Stars

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 23, 1950, page 21 (results column)

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    Saturdays Grid Stars BOB ZASTROW, Navy–PaSSeo and ran Navy to a 27–⁠14 victory over Southern California, scoring two touchdoWns. DICK DOYNE, Gained 1853 yards, scored one touchdown in Lehigh’s 1914 upset of Dart mouth. VITO PARILLI, Kentucky-His passing scored one touchdown. set up three others in 34–⁠7 victory over Villanova. CHARLEY ORTMANN, Michiean-Passed for one touchdown ran and passed to set up two others in 26–⁠13 win over Wis consin. BOB REYNOLDS, Nebraska Ran 10, 26 and AZ yards for touch downs in 1910 victory over Penn State. ERNIE STOCKERT, UCLA- Caught two touchdown passes in alt upset over Stanford. DICK RAKLOVITS, Illinois Made numerous long gains, scored two touchdoWns in 20–⁠13 win over Washington. BOBBY ROBERTSON, Indiana Dashed 83 yards for touch down, ran up 1875 yards in 18 tries in leading 20–⁠7 win over Notre Dame. BERNIE CUSTIS, Syracuse Scored two touchdoWns, completed II passes. one for a touchdown, ir 1927 win over Holy Cross. RUFUS BARKLEY, Virginia Passed for two touchdoWns in Cavalier rally that beat VMI, 26–⁠13. Al KOZAR, Tennessee–Scored two touchdowns, one in last minutes, to beat Alabama, 14–⁠9. KYLE ROTE, Southern Methodist-Scored two touchdowns, set up another in 1921 victory over Rice. BYRON TOWNSEND, Texas Scored two touchdowns, one in last period, to give Texas 1914 win over Arkansas. LARRY ISBELL. Baylor-Passeo for one touchdown, set up two others in 26–⁠12 triumph ovel Texas Tech. LOREN BROADUS, Florida Received first touchdown pass OF IA yards, ran 81 yards for Florida s winning touchdown, carried bal eight times for 109 yards in 3l-2T victory over Vanderbilt. ED MOONEY, North Carolina State-Scored two touchdowns ir 1913 victory over Maryland. LARRY SPENCER, Wake Forest Intercepted pass and ran 8; yards to touchdown in 1870 win over George Washington. DICK FLOWERS, Northwestern Passed to three touchdowns in 1928 win over Pittsburgh. TOM POWERS, Duke-Scoreo all six touchdowns as Duke beat Richmond. 41–⁠0. Powers caught four passes for 180 yards and three touchdoWns.

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)

Kentucky 53% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Kentucky leads 7–⁠1–⁠1 in nine meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1972Kentucky 25, Villanova 7
1955Kentucky 28, Villanova 0
1954Kentucky 28, Villanova 3
1953Kentucky 19, Villanova 0
1952Villanova 25, Kentucky 6
1951Kentucky 35, Villanova 13

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