Bucknell at Lafayette

Saturday, November 9, 1907

Lafayette beat Bucknell 34–⁠0. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Lafayette led the series 6–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayBucknell4–⁠7 in 1907
0
HomeLafayette7–⁠2–⁠1 in 1907
34

FinalHigh 55°F, low 34°F

In the newspapers

  • The Waterbury evening Democrat's story: COLLEGE FOOTBALL. Indians Humble Harvard and Cornell Defeats the West Point Team.

    Waterbury evening Democrat, November 11, 1907, page 11 (results column)

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    COLLEGE FOOTBALL. Indians Humble Harvard and Cornell Defeats the West Point Team. Indians Humble Harvard and Cornell Defeats the West Point Team. 2 New York, Nov. 11.--Surprises came thick and fast in the college football games. Yale hid her true form, but piled up big score against Brown which Harvard barely beat the week before; Princeton had some trouble de feating Amherst, IA to 0. but the IT gers were without the services of their captain; Pennsylvania fairly smother ed Pennsylvania State, the conqueror of Cornell; the Carlisle Indians hum- bled Harvard and defeated the crim- son team for the first time since the two elevens have met; Cornell won well earned victory over West Point in hard fought game, while the Navy team suffered defeat at the hands of Swarthmore. Wesleyan was no match for Williams, and Andover beat Exc ter in their twenty-seventh annual game The leading scores follow: At New Haven-Yale, 22; Brown, 0. At Cam bridge-Carlisle. 23; Harvard, 15. At West Point-Cornell, 12; Army. 10. At Princeton-Prlnceton, IA; Amherst, 0. At Annapolis, Md-Swarthmore, IS; Navy, 0. At Philadelphia--Pennsylva- nia, 2S; Pennsylvania State, 0. At Bethlehem, Pa.-Lehigh 34; New York university, o. At Schenectady, N. Y.- Rochester, 4; Union, 0. At Villanova, Pa.-Villanova, 15; Fordham, Il. At Middletown. Conn.--Williams, IS; Wes- leyan, O. At Hartford, Conn.-Trinity, 20; Stevens, G. At Pittsburg-W Western University of Pennsylvania. 10; West Virginia, O. At Gettysburg, Pa.-Get- tysburg, 12; Ursinus. O. At Ithaca, N. Y.-Wyoming seminary, 12; Cornell freshmen, o. At New Haven. Conn., Yale freshmen, p; Princeton fresh men. 6. At Easton, Pa.-Lafayette, 34; Bucknell. 0. At Lancaster, Pa Franklin and Marshall, 6; Jefferson Medical, 10. At Carlisle, Pa.-Dickin- son, 1: Medico- Chirurgical, o. At Cam bridge, Mass.-Harvard freshmen, G.; Dean academy, 0. At Hamilton. N. Y.-Colgate. 20; Hamilton, 10. Dart mouth 52, Holy Cross 0.

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 77% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Lafayette leads 28–⁠12–⁠3 in 43 meetings, counting the 35 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Lafayette 20, Bucknell 7
2025Lafayette 62, Bucknell 24
2024Bucknell 21, Lafayette 14
2023Lafayette 56, Bucknell 22
2022Lafayette 24, Bucknell 14
2021Lafayette 27, Bucknell 0

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