North Carolina at Georgetown

Saturday, November 3, 1906

Georgetown beat North Carolina 4–⁠0. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Georgetown led the series 4–⁠1.

AwayNorth Carolina1–⁠4–⁠2 in 1906
0
HomeGeorgetown1–⁠0 in 1906
4

FinalHigh 66°F, low 33°FAttendance 2,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: K1CKED GOAL FROM FIEID. Georgetown Defeated North Carolina UNIVERSITY.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 4, 1906, page 1

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    K1CKED GOAL FROM FIEID. Georgetown Defeated North Carolina UNIVERSITY. NORFOLK, Va, November 3.-Georgetown University defeated North Carolina here today to in a game without a touchdown. After four minutes of play in the first half Capt. Bocock of Georgetown dropped beautiful field goal, but 1t was not al lowed on account of too many men being in the line. Two minutes later Bocock did the same trick from the thirty-yard line. There was no further scoring The remainder of the game being fercely contested up and down midfield, except on two occasions when Carolina rushed the ball to Georgetown’s ten-yard line and lost 1t on downs.

  • The The Washington herald's story: GEORGETOWN VICTOR BocOck's Goal from Field Downs North Carolina. LOSERS FUMBLING Is COSTLY

    The Washington herald, November 4, 1906, page 9

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    GEORGETOWN VICTOR BocOck’s Goal from Field Downs North Carolina. LOSERS FUMBLING Is COSTLY At Straight Football TarheeIs Prove Better GrOuRd-Eainers Than Blue and Gray-LocaIs Stave on Defeat by Holding for Downs on Two yard Line-BOcocIS Kicks Goal.

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)

North Carolina 56% to win. Georgetown won as Elo’s underdog.

Georgetown leads 7–⁠3–⁠1 in 11 meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1915Georgetown 38, North Carolina 0
1912Georgetown 37, North Carolina 10
1910Georgetown 12, North Carolina 0
1909North Carolina 5, Georgetown 0
1908North Carolina 6, Georgetown 6
1907North Carolina 12, Georgetown 5

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