Mississippi College at Colgate

Saturday, November 1, 1952

Colgate beat Mississippi College 53–⁠12. It was their fifth meeting; Colgate leads the series 5–⁠0.

AwayMississippi College0–⁠1 in 1952
12
HomeColgate6–⁠3 in 1952
53

FinalHigh 67°F, low 43°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Colgate Easily Beats Mississippi College

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 2, 1952, page 67

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    Colgate Easily Beats Mississippi College HAMILTON. N. Y, Nov. L. Colgate romped to its fifth foot. ball victory today with a parade of touchdowns led by AL Simmon. and Fred Totten to swamp Missis. sippi College. 1912. A crowd Of about 5000 saw the Red Raiders roll up their most one sided conquest in a five-game series with Mississippi. Colgate has won all five. The loss was Mississippi’s third in six games this season. Colgate dropped one contest to Harvard |by a one-point margin. Simmons clicked of 81 yards the longest run Of the day-tc launch Colgate’s scoring spree when the game was about five minutes old. It was the second play after Colgate first took pos session of the ball. Simmons added two more touch |downs-one in the second quarter on an 18-yard pass from Totten and the other on an 18-yard run in the third quarter. Totten whipped over for two touchdowns and booted five extra points. He romped 40 yards behind top-notch blocking in the first quarter. the score coming on the fourth play after Colgate got the ball for. the second time. Charles Ballard punched across both Mississippi touchdowns in the closing minutes. Each was from the one-yard stripe. coisate ciIt’ “se--- OA’..-- Il 1S : iS-5ss Colgate scoring: Touchdowns-Simmon t3); Totten. (2); Mccarthy, Vurbeff, Schirmer. Convefsions-Totten, 5. Mississippi College scoring: Touchdowns -Rallard (21

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.

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Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Colgate 90% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Colgate leads 5–⁠0 in five meetings.

Recent meetings
1952Colgate 53, Mississippi College 12
1940Colgate 31, Mississippi College 0
1932Colgate 32, Mississippi College 0
1931Colgate 27, Mississippi College 0
1930Colgate 34, Mississippi College 0

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