Rutgers at Colgate
Saturday, October 9, 1954 Share
Colgate beat Rutgers 26–14. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Colgate led the series 7–2.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 42°F, 0.04 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 10, 1954, page 64
Read the text
Long Runs by Colgate Soph Beats Rutgers, 26–14 HAMILTON, N. Y. Oct. o. Sophomore Halfback Ed White hair pulled the game out Of the fire for Colgate today and then put it, on ice with two fourth quarter touchdown runs as the Red Raiders beat stubborn Rutgers squad. 26–14. Rutgers was leading, 14–12, on touchdowns BY Quarterback Jack Fennell and Fullback Angelo Iannucci when Whitehair broke through nicely opened hole in the Scarlet line and raced from the Rutgers AZ over the goal line at Alb Of the fourth quarter. Five minutes later he burst through of tackle to speed over from % yards out. co!ssts cosssts --- - TIT 1s ! : 1@-aaaa Rutgers scoring: Touchdowns-Fennell Iannucci. Conversions Hosada (2l. Colgate scoring: Touchdowns--Speno t2) Whitehair CD. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CD
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)
Colgate 79% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Rutgers–Colgate gameRutgers leads 27–15 in 42 meetings, counting the 33 since this game.
| 1993 | Rutgers 68, Colgate 6 | |
| 1992 | Rutgers 41, Colgate 0 | |
| 1990 | Rutgers 28, Colgate 17 | |
| 1988 | Rutgers 41, Colgate 22 | |
| 1985 | Rutgers 28, Colgate 14 | |
| 1984 | Rutgers 17, Colgate 7 |
Around this game
Rutgers
- Next gamevs. William & MaryOct. 16, 1954
- SeasonRutgers in 1954
- ProgramRutgers history and records
Colgate
- Next gameat DartmouthOct. 16, 1954
- SeasonColgate in 1954
- ProgramColgate history and records

