Colgate at Rutgers

Saturday, October 13, 1956

Colgate beat Rutgers 48–⁠6. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Colgate led the series 8–⁠2.

AwayColgate4–⁠5 in 1956
48
HomeRutgers3–⁠7 in 1956
6

FinalHigh 63°F, low 37°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Colgate Batters Rutgers, 48-6

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 14, 1956, page 67

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    Colgate Batters Rutgers, 48–⁠6 NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Oct. Is tP1.-John Call, Colgate half back who played only four min utes more than one quarter scored four touchdowns today as the Red Raiders crushed Rutgers, 1876. The only solace the home team gained was that it kept intact its scoring string that now runs through SO games, Rutgers didn’t get its touch down until one second before the finish. The Scarlet had scored in every game since it was whitewashed by Lafayette in the middle of the 1914 season. With many Of the spectators on their way to the exits, Sophomore Jay Hunton caught a short pass from Bill Gatyas on his own 35 and raced SO yards to Colgate’S 6. Here he was caught from behind by Joe Vitok. With the clock showing only one sec ond left. Hunton took a hand of from Gatyas and raced around left end to score. Three of Calls four touch downs came within a 13-minute scoring spree in the opening quarter. Colgate .----------2 81 IL : is

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 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Rutgers leads 27–⁠15 in 42 meetings, counting the 32 since this game.

Recent meetings
1993Rutgers 68, Colgate 6
1992Rutgers 41, Colgate 0
1990Rutgers 28, Colgate 17
1988Rutgers 41, Colgate 22
1985Rutgers 28, Colgate 14
1984Rutgers 17, Colgate 7

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