South Carolina at Army

Saturday, September 27, 1958

No. 8 Army beat No. 18 South Carolina 45–⁠8. It was their third meeting; Army leads the series 2–⁠1.

Away18South Carolina7–⁠3 in 1958
8
Home8Army8–⁠0–⁠1 in 1958
45

FinalHigh 69°F, low 52°F, 1.99 in. of rainAttendance 16,250

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: SPORTS ROUNDUP Terps and Navy Win; Glenn Beats Round Table

    Evening star, September 28, 1958, page 1 (results column)

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    SPORTS ROUNDUP Terps and Navy Win; Glenn Beats Round Table Maryland’s football team, rebounding from its disastrous debut, upset favored North Carolina State yesterday, 21–⁠6 In another surprise, Virginia beat Duke, 1912. Navy won its opener over William g. Mary 14–⁠0. Army trounced South Carolina, 45–⁠8; Notre Dame took Indiana, 1870, and Ohio State got a scare before edging Southern Methodist, 1920. The Ivy League produced two up sets, Rutgers over Princeton, 28–⁠0, and Buffalo over Harvard, 6–⁠3. while Yale just did nip Connecticut, 8–⁠6. Racing Round Table failed for the third consecutive time in his bid to become the worlds rich est horse as Clem won the Woodward Stakes. It was Clem’s third victory in a row over Round Table, who coulc do no better than fifth yesterday. Baseball Ted Williams took a three point lead over Boston Team. mate Pete Runnels in tht American Leagues sizzling bat ting race. Williams got thret hits in four attempts as Bostor beat Washington to boost hi average to .327, while Runnels despite a home run, triple ant single, had three-for-six for ( .324 average. The champion ship will be decided in the flna game at Griffith Stadium today “Details in Sports SectiOn).

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)

Army 68% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Army leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings.

Recent meetings
1958Army 45, South Carolina 8
1954South Carolina 34, Army 20
1952Army 28, South Carolina 7

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