Colorado at Utah
Saturday, November 1, 1952 Share
Colorado beat Utah 20–14. It was their 49th meeting; after it, Colorado led the series 24–22–3.
Finallow 37°FAttendance 15,300
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 2, 1952, page 74
Read the text
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.
The series
Every Colorado–Utah gameUtah leads 37–33–3 in 73 meetings, counting the 24 since this game.
| 2026 | Utah 27, Colorado 24 | |
| 2025 | Utah 53, Colorado 7 | |
| 2024 | Colorado 49, Utah 24 | |
| 2023 | Utah 23, Colorado 17 | |
| 2022 | Utah 63, Colorado 21 | |
| 2021 | Utah 28, Colorado 13 |
Around this game
Colorado
- Next gameat MissouriNov. 8, 1952
- SeasonColorado in 1952
- ProgramColorado history and records
Utah
- Next gameat Colorado StateNov. 8, 1952
- SeasonUtah in 1952
- ProgramUtah history and records

