Lawrence at Wisconsin

Saturday, October 7, 1905

Wisconsin beat Lawrence 34–⁠0. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Wisconsin led the series 5–⁠0.

AwayLawrence7–⁠3 in 1905
0
HomeWisconsin8–⁠2 in 1905
34

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Minneapolis journal's story: BADGER PLAYERS !. BEAT LAWRENCE Wisconsin Team Piles. Up Score of "a to 0 in Hard Fought Game. Special to The Journal.

    The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., October 8, 1905, page 1

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    BADGER PLAYERS !. BEAT LAWRENCE Wisconsin Team Piles. Up Score of “a to 0 in Hard Fought Game. Special to The Journal. Special to The Journal. Madison, Wis, Oct. Before Q crowd Of 800 Wisconsin today defeated Lawrence, “a to 0, one more point than Chicago made against the same team. Because Speik, assistant coach of Chi cago, was present taking notes, Coach Holt shifted Wisconsin almost beyond recognition, only Bertke, Roseth, Remp, Melzner and Decring Of the regulars starting in the game. Lawrence worked the double pass on Wisconsin three times, once for Is yards and for 30 and 40 yards, the 30-yard run almost resulting in touchdown for the visit ors Just before time was called. Despite the fact that the badgers used subs, the team played together well. Roseth was the Wisconsin star, his limo 4plunging being the best of the. season. Wisconsin’s first touchdown was a fuke., After carrying the ball the length of the field on the kickoff Fisher fumbled inside Lawrence g FIVE yard line, the ball rolling over the goal fine and Wrabetz falling on it. In the first half Wisconsin made eighteen points, Bertke holding the line in championship form, making two touch downs and Wrabetz the other. With the score standing 90 to 0 and time al most up the rooters yelled, Remember Chicago!’ Then the varsity pulled together and went the Chicago score one better. The teams lined up as follows:

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)

Wisconsin 89% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Wisconsin leads 17–⁠0–⁠1 in 18 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.

Recent meetings
1930Wisconsin 53, Lawrence 6
1921Wisconsin 28, Lawrence 0
1920Wisconsin 60, Lawrence 0
1916Wisconsin 20, Lawrence 0
1915Wisconsin 82, Lawrence 0
1914Wisconsin 21, Lawrence 0

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