Medico-Chirurgical at Lafayette

Wednesday, October 11, 1905

Lafayette beat Medico-Chirurgical 35–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Lafayette led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayMedico-Chirurgical0–⁠3 in 1905
0
HomeLafayette7–⁠2–⁠1 in 1905
35

FinalHigh 63°F, low 53°F, 1.53 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: FOOT BALL BATTLES. Two More Big Elevens Scored on by Opponents.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 12, 1905, page 9 (results column)

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    FOOT BALL BATTLES. Two More Big Elevens Scored on by Opponents. The foot ball games of yesterday saw two more of the big elevens have their goal lines crossed. Although Harvard and Princeton won from Bates and I.ehiglreasilv enough. touchdown was made by each of the opposing elevens This makes three of the big four that have suffered in this respect this season, but times are not like they were when big teams went through a season with no scoring by opponents Yale the Indians, Columbia, Lafayette and An napolis still have clean States Harvard beat Bates 81 to g Yesterday tho score last year being II to o. Princeton de % more points against Lehigh last year than she did yesterday and six less points than Pennsylvania made against Iehigh the other day. Yale took care of the Springfield Training School by score of % to 0, whereas the Blue beat the S. T. s. team only to O a year ago PennsyIya- MAS total of 38 points against Franklin and Marshall was just points more than against the same college eleven in 1904 Brown made the top score YESTERDAY bea ting Colby 20 to O. this being within one point of the biggest score SO far of the year. the II 10 made by the Carlisle In dians against the PENNSYLVANIA r r M c. A. Lafayette and Annapolis piled up numerous touchdowns against their opponents. There were frequent long runs, from fifty to one hundred yards, in the course of the days play and not always by the winners, though most of the games were one sided. Several teams had their first experience of the year in handling a wet ball. Williams beat the Massachusetts “Aggiess’ II to o. The latter team has been beaten this year “a to 0 by Brown and IS to 0 by Dartmouth. Yesterdays score: Harvard, “a: Bates. 6. Yale. 20; Springfield Training School, O. Princeton. %; Lehigh, 9. Pennsylvania. 3S: Franklin and Mar shall. O. Annapolis. 80: ST. Johns. o. Lafayette, 35; Medico-Chirurgical, 0. Brown 10; Colby, 0. Williams 12. Massachusetts, “Aggies,” 0. l. Andover. 20: Williston. o. Lawrenceville, 33; Princeton Freshmen, O.

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 90% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Lafayette leads 3–⁠0 in three meetings, counting the two since this game.

Recent meetings
1908Lafayette 23, Medico-Chirurgical 0
1906Lafayette 34, Medico-Chirurgical 0
1905Lafayette 35, Medico-Chirurgical 0

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