Wake Forest at Maryland

Saturday, October 12, 1957

Maryland beat Wake Forest 27–⁠0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Maryland led the series 5–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayWake Forest0–⁠10 in 1957
0
HomeMaryland5–⁠5 in 1957
27

FinalHigh 59°F, low 32°FAttendance 16,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Irish Top Army, 23-21; Maryland and Navy Win

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1957, page 1 (results column)

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    Irish Top Army, 23–⁠21; Maryland and Navy Win Notre Dame. trailing Army by two touchdowns, staged a tremendous comeback late in the second half yesterday to defeat the Cadets. 1921, before a thrilled crowd Of $4,000 at Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia. Michigan State administered a 1915 trouncing to Michigan in the top Big Ten battle of the day. while powerful Okla homa rolled TO its 43rd straight victory by defeating Texas, 2l-7. Maryland finally broke into the victory column at College Park. The thrice-beaten Terps, prepping for their appearance before Queen Elizabeth II at next Saturdays game with North Carolina, shut out Wake Forest. 27–⁠0. Navy rebounded from its up set by North Carolina a week ago by defeating California, 81 8. The Midshipmen were trail ing. 60, until late in the third quarter. Tom Hyde Of Airing ton. Va. scored the first Navy touchdown and Tom Forrestal and Ned Oldham added the others. The long awaited renewal OF the Irish-Army game. one OF footballs most colorful rival ries, began and ended spec tacularly, with Army scoring first on an 8l-yard run and the Irish clinching the game IN the waning minutes with a 29-yard field goal by a sophomore end. 1t was perhaps the sweetest victory in Terry Brennan’s brief

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)

Maryland 60% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Maryland leads 43–⁠18–⁠1 in 62 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.

Recent meetings
2013Wake Forest 34, Maryland 10
2012Maryland 19, Wake Forest 14
2011Wake Forest 31, Maryland 10
2010Maryland 62, Wake Forest 14
2009Wake Forest 42, Maryland 32
2008Maryland 26, Wake Forest 0

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