Rutgers at Temple

Saturday, October 6, 1951

Temple beat Rutgers 14–⁠7. It was their fourth meeting; after it, the series stood even at 2–⁠2.

AwayRutgers4–⁠4 in 1951
7
HomeTemple6–⁠4 in 1951
14

FinalHigh 84°F, low 61°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Temple Grabs Fumb|es To Beat Rutgers, 14-7

    Evening star, October 7, 1951, page 48

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    Temple Grabs Fumb|es To Beat Rutgers, 14–⁠7 Philadelphia, Oct. 6.-Temple’. football team turned two first-halt fumbles into touchdowns and tner withstood a late fourth quarter rally to defeat Rutgers, IA to 7 today before 5000 at Temple Stadium. George He’ll. Temples brilliant defensive center, set up the hrst Owl score when he fell on jim Monahan’s tumble early in the first period on the Rutgers rs. Four plays later Temple Full back John Ramsey bulled his way over from nine yards out for 9 score. Dick Stolte converted. Rutgers roared back immedi. ately to tie the score on Mona. hans 89-yard run. Both clubs were then forced into “a punting game until midway ir the second period.

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)

Rutgers 57% to win. Temple won as Elo’s underdog.

Rutgers leads 23–⁠16 in 39 meetings, counting the 35 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Rutgers 36, Temple 7
2022Rutgers 16, Temple 14
2021Rutgers 61, Temple 14
2013Rutgers 23, Temple 20
2012Rutgers 35, Temple 10
2004Rutgers 16, Temple 6

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