Wyoming at Denver

Thursday, November 23, 1950

No. 12 Wyoming beat Denver 42–⁠12. It was their 34th meeting; after it, Denver led the series 29–⁠4–⁠1.

Away12Wyoming10–⁠0 in 1950
42
HomeDenver3–⁠8–⁠1 in 1950
12

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: ROUNDUP

    The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, November 24, 1950, page 1 (results column)

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    ROUNDUP Now that the skinny Thanksgiving Day program is over college football fans are looking forward to tomorrow’s big games headed by the Tennessee Kentucky clash at Knoxville. The Knoxville classic between the giants of the deep South lost some of its Importance when Tennessee jumped the gun and accepted an invitation to play Texas in the Cot ton Bowl, but it’s still tops. Unbeaten Kentucky can clinch an appearance either in the Sugar or Orange Bowl by defeating the pow erful Vols or holding them to a tight score. Wyoming, Washington and Lee, Tulsa, Missouri and Columbia featured the Turkey Day activities. Wyoming, ranked 18th in the AP poll, walloped Denver, 42–⁠12. to take the Skyline Six title and finish I’M beaten and united with an eye to a bowl bid. Bowl Hopeful Washington and Lee, another bowl hopeful, won its first Southern Conference championship in 16 years by drubbing Richmond, GIT. Tulsa, Missouri Valley conference kings, poured it on in the second half to whip Arkansas, 28–⁠13. Missouri, upset Kansas, 20–⁠6, in their Big Seven fray while Columbia closed it’s season with a $50 morn ing rout of Brown. In traditional games Virginia Military blasted Virginia Tech, 27-o; Utah swamped Utah State. 46-O; Trinity drubbed Tufts, 48–⁠6; and Franklin and Marshall finished its season unbeaten and united with 1920 rout of Gettysburg. Games In West CALIFORNIA; all-winning Bears must humble the Stanford Indians at Berkeley tomorrow to neil down

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)

Wyoming 83% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Denver leads 31–⁠11–⁠2 in 44 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.

Recent meetings
1960Wyoming 41, Denver 2
1959Wyoming 45, Denver 0
1958Wyoming 15, Denver 12
1957Denver 14, Wyoming 13
1956Wyoming 27, Denver 0
1955Denver 6, Wyoming 3

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