Colorado vs. LSU
Monday, January 1, 1962, Orange Bowl Share
No. 3 LSU beat No. 6 Colorado 25–7. It was their first meeting; after it, LSU led the series 1–0.
FinalTV: ABCAttendance 62,391Referee: Cliff Ogden (Big 8) (split crew: Big 8, SEC)The game on Wikipedia
In the newspapers
Evening star, District of Columbia, January 4, 1962, page 53
Read the text
OkIohomo’s S Comeback Rated Footballs Best Syracuse, then lost to Iowa and Duke. For Louisiana State and Minnesota, it was a case OF getting away poorly, but recovering quickly. Rice knocked of LSU in the season opener, but the Tigers, who were Sal in 1860, rebounded to. win their next nine games and went into the Orange Bowl where they clobbered Colorado, 25–7. Win Seven Straight Minnesota, although Nation al champion last year, was not highly rated at seasons start and it appeared dark after the Gophers dropped their opener to Missouri, 60. But Murray Warmath’s team reeled off seven straight, and after being upset by Wisconsin, went on to the Rose Bowl to wreck UCLA, 21–3. Kansas was beaten by Texas Christian and Colorado and tied by Wyoming. Then the Jayhawkers rallied to defeat Iowa State, Oklahoma, Okla homa State, Nebraska, Kansas State and California before closing out the regular season with a 10–7 loss to Missouri. Columbia amazed the East ern experts by winning a share of the Ivy League title after several losing seasons.
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.
On the newsreel
- ORANGE BOWL: L.S.U. 25 COLORADO 7Heavily favored L.S.U., is a bit worried at the start as an interception is run back for a Colorado touchdown. But the Tigers roar on to victory
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
LSU 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Colorado–LSU gameLSU leads 5–1 in six meetings, counting the five since this game.
| 1980 | LSU 23, Colorado 20 | |
| 1979 | LSU 44, Colorado 0 | |
| 1974 | LSU 42, Colorado 14 | |
| 1973 | LSU 17, Colorado 6 | |
| 1971 | Colorado 31, LSU 21 | |
| 1961 | LSU 25, Colorado 7 | Orange Bowl |
Around this game
Colorado
- Next gameat UtahSept. 22, 1962
- SeasonColorado in 1961
- ProgramColorado history and records
LSU
- Next gamevs. Texas A&MSept. 22, 1962
- SeasonLSU in 1961
- ProgramLSU history and records