Colorado at Utah

Saturday, November 1, 1952

Colorado beat Utah 20–⁠14. It was their 49th meeting; after it, Colorado led the series 24–⁠22–⁠3.

AwayColorado6–⁠2–⁠2 in 1952
20
HomeUtah6–⁠3–⁠1 in 1952
14

Finallow 37°FAttendance 15,300

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Colorado Pass Interception Takes Victory from Utah

    Evening star, November 2, 1952, page 74

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    Colorado Pass Interception Takes Victory from Utah SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. L. Colorado University turned an IN tercepted pass into a game-winming touchdown today to defeat a Utah University football team that outplayed the winners most of the way. The score was 20 to IA Defensive Guard Roy Shepard hauled in the Utah aerial, thrown by Quarterback Don Rydalch, to give Colorado the ball on the Utah, 40. With Halfbacks Carroll Hardy and Woody Shelton doing most of the gaining the Buffaloes pounded to the Utah Is. Hardy passed to Quarterback Roger Williams. who caught the ball on the Utah one. On the next play Williams smashed through center on a quarterback sneak to score the winning counter. Colorado ----------- o 6 z 30 Utah – Z o O-l4 Scoring: Colorado ouchdowns-shelton, Williams ca. ConverSion-Williams (2). Scoring: Utah. touchdowns-Branham, Bean. Conversions-Kalani (2l.

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)

Colorado 53% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Utah leads 37–⁠33–⁠3 in 73 meetings, counting the 24 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Utah 27, Colorado 24
2025Utah 53, Colorado 7
2024Colorado 49, Utah 24
2023Utah 23, Colorado 17
2022Utah 63, Colorado 21
2021Utah 28, Colorado 13

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