Idaho at BYU

Friday, November 11, 1955

Idaho beat BYU 49–⁠6. It was their third meeting; after it, Idaho led the series 2–⁠1.

AwayIdaho2–⁠7 in 1955
49
HomeBYU1–⁠9 in 1955
6

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Miami Uncover. Aerial Game 10 .Ro!ut B|uckneIL

    Evening star, November 12, 1955, page 11

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    Miami Uncover. Aerial Game 10 .Ro!ut B|uckneIL Now Miami’s opponents have something new to worry about. Il Known strictly as q ground attacking force all season. Coach Andy Gustafson’s men suddenly turned to the air last night for an easy 1870 victory over Buck nell. Not only did the Hurricanes find they could score through the |air, but they uncovered a boy who probably win play q bic part in their offense the next two years. He is Quarterback Gene Reeves. q sophomore, who pitched to q pair Of touchdowns land scored one himself. Jack Losch. the Hurricanes chief scoring threat, ran 90 yards around Bucknell’s left end Ion the first play from scrimmage. The entire Bucknell defense was pulled out Of position and he raced goalward unmolested. Passing Practice for Miami From then on. Gustafson ex- Iperimented with his manpower and Miami used the game mostly for passing practice. In other games Detroit halted IVillanova. SO: Omaha thrashed Idaho State. 1877: Idaho turned back Brigham Young, 49–⁠6: Florida State scored over Fur man. 1876. and Chattanooga Ivanquished the Paris Island Marines, 26-l3. Detroit won It’s game with Viilanoya early In the third quarter when Quarterback Jim |Lobkoyich tossed q 20-yard pass Ito Billy Russell on the 2. The latter stepped over and that was all Detroit needed to pull its record over the 500 mark for the first time this season. Omaha’s victory knocke d Idaho State from the ranks Of the undefeated. Idaho State had won eight straight. Omaha now has won eight and lost one. Idaho Finally Clicks Idaho broke q record in reverse. The Vandals, who had lost all seven Of their previous games this year, couldn’t do a thing wrong as they rolled up the most lopsided margin in their series with the Cougars. Florida State had trouble with underdog Furman and had to score two second -half touch downs to pull out the victory. Jerry Ward was the big man in Chattanooga’s victory over the Paris Island Marines. He scored three Of the Moccasins’ four touchdowns.

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)

BYU 56% to win. Idaho won as Elo’s underdog.

BYU leads 3–⁠2 in five meetings, counting the two since this game.

Recent meetings
2012BYU 52, Idaho 13
2011BYU 42, Idaho 7
1955Idaho 49, BYU 6
1954Idaho 7, BYU 0
1953BYU 20, Idaho 14

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