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Tufts at Wesleyan (CT)

Saturday, November 4, 1905

Wesleyan (CT) beat Tufts 27–⁠5. It was their seventh meeting; Wesleyan (CT) leads the series 5–⁠2.

AwayTufts5–⁠3 in 1905
5
HomeWesleyan (CT)7–⁠2–⁠1 in 1905
27

Final

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: WESLEYAN 0UTPLAYS TUFTS. Van Surdams Brilliant Run for a Touch down Spoiled by Holding.

    New-York tribune, November 5, 1905, page 8

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    WESLEYAN 0UTPLAYS TUFTS. Van Surdams Brilliant Run for a Touch down Spoiled by Holding. Middletown Conn, Nov. 4-In hard fought game of football here to-day Wesleyan defeated Tufts by a score of 81 to 5. Wesleyans touch downs came after hard line bucking Van Surdan of Wesleyan. caught the ball on the and ran the entire length of the field for touchdown but there holding by n Wesleyan nlayer and the ball was given to Tufts on Wesfavsn’s Ih-yard line Tufts then carried the ball over the line for their only score. naorbOrr1 Of Wesleyan, hurt, and may be kent cut of the williams game next Saturday. The lineup 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)

Wesleyan (CT) 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Tufts–Wesleyan (CT) game

Wesleyan (CT) leads 5–⁠2 in seven meetings.

Recent meetings
1905Wesleyan (CT) 27, Tufts 5
1901Tufts 5, Wesleyan (CT) 0
1897Wesleyan (CT) 6, Tufts 0
1896Wesleyan (CT) 28, Tufts 4
1895Wesleyan (CT) 16, Tufts 10
1893Wesleyan (CT) 16, Tufts 14

Around this game

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