Colorado at Michigan State

Saturday, November 24, 1951

No. 2 Michigan State beat Colorado 45–⁠7. It was their first meeting; after it, Michigan State led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayColorado7–⁠3 in 1951
7
Home2Michigan State9–⁠0 in 1951
45

FinalAttendance 29,987

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Sportons End Unbeoten Season With 45-7 Rout of Colorado

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 25, 1951, page 50

    Read the text

    Sportons End Unbeoten Season With 45–⁠7 Rout of Colorado first play after the third quarter kickoff. Quarterback AL Dorow passed to Bob Carey, the big Michigan State captain and end. for two of the touchdowns. The longest scoring run was made by Fullback Dick Panin, who went through the middle on a ST. yard dash in the first period. Although the firststringers made most of the Michigan State touch downs, the second and third stringers of the pony” backfield also sparkled. Michigan State netted 800 yards rushing to 178 for Colorado. Six pass competitions in IA tries gave the Spartans 100 yards to 6S yards on seven of II passes completed for Colorado. Colorado – q 2 O. = Michigan State -------13 IS 13–⁠4i Colorado scoring: Touchdowns, Hardy Conversion, Williams. Michigan State scoNns: Touchdowns r. Carey io), Panin veg. McAnliffe (2), slonac. Conversions r. Carey (al.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: Grid Stars On Saturday

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 26, 1951, page 6 (results column)

    Read the text

    Grid Stars On Saturday Bud Roffler, Washington State Played the entire game. rolling ut 132 yards rushing and TT passing as Washington State shaded Wash ington, 27–⁠25. Johnny Pappa. California = Crossed the goal line twice as Cali fornia upset Stanford, 20–⁠7 Paul Cameron, UCLA = Carried the bulk of his teams offense as UCLA tripped Southern California 2l-7. He picked up l28 yards pas sing and rushing, and tossed one touchdown aerial. Hank Lauricella, Tennessee = Gained 133 yards rushing in IT at temptS to lead his team to 28–⁠0 victory over Kentucky He threw one touchdown pass and averaged 34.5 yards on four punts. Sammy Rcbecca, Illinois–Kicked a 17-yard field goal to give his team a 80 triumph over North western that enabled Illinois to win the Big Ten championship and a trip to the Rose Bowl. Bob Carey, Michigan State = Caught two touchdown passes on plays of 42 and 23 yards and booted three extra points as Michigan State trounced Colorado, 45–⁠7.

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.

On the newsreel

  • PALO ALTOMichigan State rounds its greatest season in thirty eight years as they roll over Colorado by the lopsided score of 45 to 7Universal Newsreel, November 26, 1951. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Michigan State 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Michigan State leads 3–⁠0 in three meetings, counting the two since this game.

Recent meetings
1984Michigan State 24, Colorado 21
1983Michigan State 23, Colorado 17
1951Michigan State 45, Colorado 7

Around this game