Colorado at Arizona
Saturday, November 24, 1956 Share
No. 20 Colorado beat Arizona 38–7. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Colorado led the series 7–0.
FinalHigh 71°F, low 61°FAttendance 12,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 25, 1956, page 77
Read the text
Colorado Routs Arizona, 3S-7 TUCSON. Ariz.. Nov. “a (P.- Colorado closed out its regular season and tuned up for the Orange Bowl tonight by over powering Arizona, 38–7. The Buffaloes are awainting their Orange Bowl opponent to be named from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Bob Jones of Clemson was the only possible opponent represented in the scouting box tonight. He saw nothing but Colorado’s routine plays. John Bayuk rammed l foot, l yard and 2 yards for three Bob Stransky’s running and passing helped put Bayuk in scoring position, and Stransky got a touchdown with a 33-yard run in the final period. Ray Engel ran a kickoff back 78 yards and Eddie Dove went around left end for 10 yards on a double reverse for the other scores. Colorado - 9 z 1873
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)
Colorado 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Colorado–Arizona gameColorado leads 17–11 in 28 meetings, counting the 21 since this game.
| 2025 | Arizona 52, Colorado 17 | |
| 2024 | Colorado 34, Arizona 7 | |
| 2023 | Arizona 34, Colorado 31 | |
| 2022 | Arizona 43, Colorado 20 | |
| 2021 | Colorado 34, Arizona 0 | |
| 2020 | Colorado 24, Arizona 13 |
Around this game
Colorado
- Next gamevs. ClemsonJan. 1, 1957, Orange Bowl
- SeasonColorado in 1956
- ProgramColorado history and records
Arizona
- Next gamevs. BYUSept. 21, 1957
- SeasonArizona in 1956
- ProgramArizona history and records

