Manhattan at Lafayette

Saturday, October 29, 1904

Lafayette beat Manhattan 54–⁠0. It was their fourth meeting; Lafayette leads the series 4–⁠0.

AwayManhattan0–⁠1 in 1904
0
HomeLafayette8–⁠2 in 1904
54

FinalHigh 54°F, low 30°F

In the newspapers

  • The The sun's story: ROUTED BY LAFAYETTE. yictors Make Many Long RUM Against the Manhattan Team.

    The sun, New York [N.Y.], October 30, 1904, page 17

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    ROUTED BY LAFAYETTE. yictors Make Many Long RUM Against the Manhattan Team. EAsroN, Pa. Oct. 29.-Lafayette found Manhattan utterly unable to hold her to-day and consequently ran UP score Of 81 without Manhattan eve getting in sight OF the goal. 1t was q walkover. Lafayette outclassing her opponent in all particulars. The visitors played hard but were too light for the Maroon and White rushers. Not once was Lafayette held for downs. On the kick-on Manhattan got the ball, but was downed and then kicked. Scammel caught the ball on the yard line and, running the distance. made a touch down Hopper soon after ran nifty yards and made the second touchdown. Again the ball was In play and scammell advanced II twenty-five yards, Morrison twenty-five Yards. and then. MoAvoy took u over for the third touchdown: This kept up right IN the second half and. running fifteen yards. made O touchdown, something unusual for q centre 70 do, The lineup.

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)

Lafayette 91% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Lafayette leads 4–⁠0 in four meetings.

Recent meetings
1904Lafayette 54, Manhattan 0
1902Lafayette 38, Manhattan 5
1901Lafayette 16, Manhattan 6
1900Lafayette 11, Manhattan 0

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