Colorado at Arizona

Saturday, November 24, 1956

No. 20 Colorado beat Arizona 38–⁠7. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Colorado led the series 7–⁠0.

Away20Colorado8–⁠2–⁠1 in 1956
38
HomeArizona4–⁠6 in 1956
7

FinalHigh 71°F, low 61°FAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Colorado Routs Arizona, 3S-7

    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.

Colorado leads 17–⁠11 in 28 meetings, counting the 21 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Arizona 52, Colorado 17
2024Colorado 34, Arizona 7
2023Arizona 34, Colorado 31
2022Arizona 43, Colorado 20
2021Colorado 34, Arizona 0
2020Colorado 24, Arizona 13

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