Wake Forest at Duke

Saturday, November 19, 1955

Duke beat Wake Forest 14–⁠0. It was their 37th meeting; after it, Duke led the series 24–⁠9–⁠1 in the games on file.

AwayWake Forest5–⁠4–⁠1 in 1955
0
HomeDuke7–⁠2–⁠1 in 1955
14

FinalHigh 50°F, low 35°F, 0.77 in. of rainAttendance 15,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 20, 1955, page 73

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    DURHAM. N. c.. Nov. 10 up -.Halfback Bob Pascal scored both touchdowns in pacing Duke to a 14–⁠0 Atlantic Coast Conference football victory over Wake Forest here today, and Just missed setting a new conference rushing record. The 189- FOUNDER from Bloom field, Nj. carried the ball 20 times and piled up l57 yards, I’VE more than the previous single-game conference rushing record set q year ago by Glenn sons Ken Moore. but six less than the new record set today In the Virginia North Carolina game. In that one, Virginia Fullback Jim Bakhtiar, a sophomore from Abadan, Iran, rushed for 1853 mel yards and the new mark. He also carried 20 times. Pascal broke up q scoreless

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)

Duke 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Duke leads 62–⁠41–⁠2; as played, 60–⁠40–⁠2 in the 102 games on file; the official count covers all 105 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Duke 49, Wake Forest 32
2024Duke 23, Wake Forest 17
2023Duke 24, Wake Forest 21
2022Duke 34, Wake Forest 31
2021Wake Forest 45, Duke 7
2019Wake Forest 39, Duke 27

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