Colgate at Army

Saturday, October 7, 1905

Army beat Colgate 18–⁠6. It was their second meeting; after it, Army led the series 1–⁠0–⁠1.

AwayColgate5–⁠4 in 1905
6
HomeArmy4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1905
18

FinalHigh 72°F, low 45°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: West Point Defeats Colgate.

    Evening star, October 8, 1905, page 50

    Read the text

    West Point Defeats Colgate. WEST POINT, n. Y, October I’m a hard-fought game here this afternoon West Point defeated the Colgate University foot ball team by the score of IS to 6. During the first half West Points goal was not threatened and the soldiers seemed to have a walkover, the half ending with IS in their favor. In the second half Colgate scored a touchdown and goal 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)

Army 74% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Army leads 24–⁠5–⁠2 in 31 meetings, counting the 29 since this game.

Recent meetings
2022Army 42, Colgate 17
2018Army 28, Colgate 14
1997Army 35, Colgate 27
1995Army 56, Colgate 14
1993Army 30, Colgate 0
1991Army 51, Colgate 22

Around this game

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