Utah at Denver

Saturday, October 10, 1908

Denver beat Utah 17–⁠15. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Utah led the series 4–⁠2.

AwayUtah3–⁠2–⁠1 in 1908
15
HomeDenver7–⁠1 in 1908
17

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Salt Lake herald's story: DENVER DEFEATS UTAH UNIVERSITY Straight Football Too Much for Maddock'S Men - Score II to 10.

    The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], October 11, 1908, page 1

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    DENVER DEFEATS UTAH UNIVERSITY Straight Football Too Much for Maddock’S Men – Score II to 10. Denver, Oct 10.-Denver university this afternoon defeated the University of Utah by a score of Il to -. At the end of the first half the score stood II to . in favor of the Utah team. During the second half Denver played straight Old-fashiOned foot ball. adding II to their score, while Utah increased its score by 4 points. The playing of S~chrader. fullback. and HutZell. right end for Denver and a goal from placement from the fifty-yard line by Convill. fullback for Utah, were the features of the game.

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 56% to win. Denver won as Elo’s underdog.

Utah leads 28–⁠10–⁠5 in 43 meetings, counting the 37 since this game.

Recent meetings
1960Utah 49, Denver 16
1959Utah 26, Denver 12
1958Utah 20, Denver 16
1957Denver 12, Utah 7
1956Utah 27, Denver 13
1955Utah 27, Denver 7

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