Marquette at Indiana
Saturday, November 18, 1950 Share
Indiana beat Marquette 18–7. It was their second meeting; after it, Indiana led the series 2–0.
Final
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 19, 1950, page 59
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Late Indiana Scores Nip Marquette, 1877 BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Nov. 18 Indiana had to score a couple OF quick touchdowns in the final quarter today to beat a Marquette team it had pushed around most OF the afternoon, 1877. The crowd of 10000 included members of 112 high school bands, Marquette gained only Is yards net in the first half while Indiana was taking a 60 lead. Then Marquette’s offense clicked with a 68-yard touchdown march ON IL plays and Indiana had to for get about saving itself for the Old Oaken Bucket classic with Purdue next Saturday. Marquettes 7–6 lead lasted 10 minutes of the third quarter and just one running play in the fourth. Bobby Robertson of In diana scored his second touch down of the game from the Mar quette 3 after a 23-yard run by Larry Fromhart. sophomore of Moundsville, w. Va. A Marquette tumble helped In diana ciinch the decision. Tackle Pete Russell recovered Pat Dill Ions bobble on the Marquette 20 Dick Olson scored from the two after carrying the ball on three Of the four plays to get it there
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 51% to win. Indiana won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Marquette–Indiana gameIndiana leads 6–0 in six meetings, counting the four since this game.
| 1960 | Indiana 34, Marquette 8 | |
| 1959 | Indiana 33, Marquette 13 | |
| 1956 | Indiana 19, Marquette 13 | |
| 1953 | Indiana 21, Marquette 20 | |
| 1950 | Indiana 18, Marquette 7 | |
| 1947 | Indiana 48, Marquette 6 |
Around this game
Marquette
- Next gamevs. South DakotaSept. 22, 1951
- SeasonMarquette in 1950
- ProgramMarquette history and records
Indiana
- Next gameat PurdueNov. 25, 1950
- SeasonIndiana in 1950
- ProgramIndiana history and records
