Fort Douglas at Utah

Saturday, October 28, 1905

Utah beat Fort Douglas 129–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Utah led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayFort Douglas0–⁠1 in 1905
0
HomeUtah6–⁠2 in 1905
129

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Salt Lake herald's story: HURRY-UP SCORE MADE BY UTAH Maddock's Men Break All Records Against Fort Douglas. PILE UP TOTAL OF 129 TO O FIFTY MINUTES OF PLAY SEES FAST WORK ON GRIDlRoN.

    The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], October 29, 1905, page 8

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    HURRY-UP SCORE MADE BY UTAH Maddock’s Men Break All Records Against Fort Douglas. PILE UP TOTAL OF 129 TO O FIFTY MINUTES OF PLAY SEES FAST WORK ON GRIDlRoN. AS dusk began 10 settle over Cum mings’ field last evening, Maddocks men . and the Soldiers finished the annual Var sity-FOrt Douglas game and gave TO the west It new record in football scores II was 40 To O. If it were possible TO get an official statement Oh football scores, it would probably be a worlds record. Three years ago. Michigan beat the Buff falo. university by score of l2S TO O.. Maddox played i’m this game. Yesterday lie had the pleasure OF seeing “A team coached by himself beat these figures. A year agO the university startled every one by running up a score of lO7 10 against the Soldiers. but even this mark was eNceiied In the two twenty-five minue halves

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)

Utah 92% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

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

Recent meetings
1913Utah 89, Fort Douglas 6
1908Utah 11, Fort Douglas 0
1905Utah 129, Fort Douglas 0

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