Santa Clara at Marquette

Saturday, November 24, 1951

Santa Clara beat Marquette 27–⁠14. It was their third meeting; Santa Clara leads the series 2–⁠1.

AwaySanta Clara3–⁠5–⁠1 in 1951
27
HomeMarquette4–⁠6–⁠1 in 1951
14

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Santa Clara Scores Early To Defeat Marquette

    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.

Santa Clara leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings.

Recent meetings
1951Santa Clara 27, Marquette 14
1950Marquette 21, Santa Clara 14
1937Santa Clara 38, Marquette 0

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