Santa Clara at Marquette
Saturday, November 24, 1951 Share
Santa Clara beat Marquette 27–14. It was their third meeting; Santa Clara leads the series 2–1.
Final
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 26, 1951, page 15
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Santa Clara Scores Early To Defeat Marquette SACRAMENTO, Calf. Nov. 26 Santa Clara made a four-touchdown lead in the first-half stano up yesterday as it won an inter sectional football game with Mar quette University, 27-l4. Passes by Quarterback Johnny Pasco, marked all the Santa Clara drives. but the games real thriller was an 89-yard return of the sec ond-half kickoff by Norm RohteI of Marquette to a touchdown. One of Santa Clara S scoring plays was almost as spectacular as Pasco pitched a short one to Del Rasmussen who scampered S. yards. The entire operation covcred 63 yards.
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 60% to win. Santa Clara won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Santa Clara–Marquette gameSanta Clara leads 2–1 in three meetings.
| 1951 | Santa Clara 27, Marquette 14 | |
| 1950 | Marquette 21, Santa Clara 14 | |
| 1937 | Santa Clara 38, Marquette 0 |
Around this game
Santa Clara
- Next gameat StanfordSept. 20, 1952
- SeasonSanta Clara in 1951
- ProgramSanta Clara history and records
Marquette
- Next gameat San José StateDec. 1, 1951
- SeasonMarquette in 1951
- ProgramMarquette history and records