Northwestern at Miami

Friday, November 23, 1962

Northwestern beat Miami 29–⁠7. It was their second meeting; after it, the series stood even at 1–⁠1.

AwayNorthwestern7–⁠2 in 1962
29
HomeMiami7–⁠4 in 1962
7

FinalAttendance 60,341

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 24, 1962, page 1 (results column)

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    is the champion. However, Min nesota is not eligible for the Rose Bowl, since it competed there the past two seasons. The long football week end, the regular season final for all but a handful of teams, got under way with Texas 1873 Thanksgiving Day victory over Texas AIM and continued last night with Northwestern’s 29–⁠7 victory over Miami in the Orange Bowl. The major bowl lineup now has Southern California ano Wisconsin, each all but certain in the Rose. Texas has clincheC the host spot in the Cotton enc an announcement that Louis lana State, the No. 8 team, viii accept the other place is ex’ pected after its game with win. less Tulane today. Arkansas Old, which play; oft-beaten Texas Tech today has accepted a position in the Sugar and is expected to meet SCI con d-ranked Mississippi 800, idle until next week Alabama Old, also idle this week. is expected to get a place in the Orange with Oklahoma the likely opponent. Harvard VS.. Yale The Sooners (6–⁠2) lead the Big Eight with a SO record while Nebraska and Missouri each are ST. and still have q chance. The Sooners virtually could clinch it against Nebraska today, but still have Oklahoma State to face. Among other major games today, Dartmouth attempts tt close out an unbeaten, united season against Princeton anc President Kennedy was SEIZED

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)

Miami 64% to win. Northwestern won as Elo’s underdog.

Tied 2–⁠2 in four meetings, counting the two since this game.

Recent meetings
1968Miami 28, Northwestern 7
1967Northwestern 12, Miami 7
1962Northwestern 29, Miami 7
1961Miami 10, Northwestern 6

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