Richmond at Wake Forest

Saturday, October 6, 1951

Wake Forest beat Richmond 56–⁠6. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Richmond led the series 5–⁠3.

AwayRichmond3–⁠8 in 1951
6
HomeWake Forest6–⁠4 in 1951
56

FinalHigh 94°F, low 68°FAttendance 7,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Wake Forest 0utcIasses Richmond in 56-6 Game

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 7, 1951, page 47

    Read the text

    Wake Forest 0utcIasses Richmond in 56–⁠6 Game WAKE FOREST, N. c.. Oct. 9. Quarterback Ed Kissell fired three touchdown passes as power Wake Forest smothered Richmond Sc to 6 today in a Southern Conference game. A crowd of 1000, sweating in sultry weather, saw Wake Forest outpoWer and outpass a befuddled Richmond team. The game was little more than a workout for the Deamon Deacons. as they rolled to their third straight victory. Wake Forest scored five touch downs in the first half and tackled on three more plus a safety in the final two periods.

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)

Wake Forest 90% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Tied 7–⁠7–⁠1 in 15 meetings, counting the seven since this game.

Recent meetings
1987Wake Forest 24, Richmond 0
1984Wake Forest 29, Richmond 16
1983Wake Forest 31, Richmond 6
1981Wake Forest 34, Richmond 22
1973Richmond 41, Wake Forest 0
1954Richmond 13, Wake Forest 0

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