Colgate at Bucknell
Saturday, November 5, 1955 Share
Colgate beat Bucknell 35–7. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Colgate led the series 6–1.
FinalHigh 45°F, low 30°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 6, 1955, page 63
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Colgate Beats BuckneII, 35–7 LEWISBURG. Pa. Nov. 5 fF1, Colgate ran up and down n M orial Field with the ease Of greyhounds today to wallop Bucknell Uniyersity’s football team, 35-T, Coach Harold Lahar’s Red Raiders maintained complete control as q host Of fieet-foOted backs scored every time they took possession Of the ball. except once. The first came ~ plays after they took over the ball in the first quarter. Bob Demil1g cracked the line for an average Of eight yards per try as the Red Raiders rolled up 307 yards In their crushing ground attack, q constant source of Bucknel. bewilderment. The homecoming crowd Of G, 800 saw Colgate strategy based ION q running attack until the shadow OF the Bucknell’s goal posts fell into view. Then Quar- |terback Guy Martin would toss Il short pass to score. Three Of the i’ve Colgate touchdownE came OF In that way. Buckneil’s Bisons showed In the third quarter only q flash Of the form they demonstrated lasi week in tying Harvard, 1925. II was then the Bisons marched 10 yards for their only touch down. ss,sss:, s;,s p.:,, ---S !. issII coIeate scorinF: Tcuchdowns Ora ham SS. pass Martinl: beminG Is pass. run from Martini; CAL %, run: Van tine iIO, pass from Martinlg BocenEx i IA. rum, Convereiona---M Martin 4, place ment; precOpio,. placement. Buckneli SCORING. uchdown--kC kCppei 70 fun). Conversion Stewart place
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 89% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Colgate–Bucknell gameColgate leads 42–13 in 55 meetings, counting the 48 since this game.
| 2025 | Colgate 38, Bucknell 19 | |
| 2024 | Bucknell 48, Colgate 34 | |
| 2023 | Bucknell 49, Colgate 34 | |
| 2022 | Colgate 13, Bucknell 7 | |
| 2021 | Colgate 33, Bucknell 10 | |
| 2019 | Bucknell 32, Colgate 14 |
Around this game
Colgate
- Next gameat SyracuseNov. 12, 1955
- SeasonColgate in 1955
- ProgramColgate history and records
Bucknell
- Next gameat MiamiNov. 11, 1955
- SeasonBucknell in 1955
- ProgramBucknell history and records

