Montana at Denver
Friday, October 5, 1956 Share
Denver beat Montana 22–13. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Denver led the series 4–2.
FinalAttendance 11,560
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 6, 1956, page 1
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Miami to Stay Unbeoten, Eagles Coach Believes Coach Mike Holovak of Boston College predicts that Miami. powerful Hurricanes will go I’M beaten this season, after watch ing them bowl over his Boston College eleven, 27–6, last night No such prediction was made about UCLA after it edged Ore gon, 60. for its 18th straight Pacific Coast Conference victory but Coach Len Casanova of Ore gon did say he saw nothing anemic” about the player-poor Bruins. There was no comment after Utah romped over Brigham Young, 41–6, and the fans are still hoarse from shouting as Denver outscored Montana 22–13. in a pair of other Friday night games. Holovak said Miamis defense beat Boston College. If their offense doesn’t come through” the former star full back said later, they’re good enough to win defensively.” Miami’s hard-hitting lineman bottled up Billy Donlan. who last year passed for I’ll yards and a touchdown against Miami as the Hurricane nosed out B. c., AT He connected on eight out of la
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)
Denver 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Montana–Denver gameDenver leads 7–3 in 10 meetings, counting the four since this game.
| 1960 | Montana 26, Denver 12 | |
| 1959 | Denver 27, Montana 12 | |
| 1958 | Denver 29, Montana 0 | |
| 1957 | Denver 26, Montana 13 | |
| 1956 | Denver 22, Montana 13 | |
| 1955 | Denver 61, Montana 13 |
Around this game
Montana
- Next gamevs. Utah StateOct. 13, 1956
- SeasonMontana in 1956
- ProgramMontana history and records
Denver
- Next gameat UtahOct. 13, 1956
- SeasonDenver in 1956
- ProgramDenver history and records
