Marquette at Wisconsin

Saturday, October 31, 1908

Wisconsin beat Marquette 9–⁠6. It was their third meeting; after it, Wisconsin led the series 3–⁠0.

AwayMarquette0–⁠1–⁠1 in 1908
6
HomeWisconsin5–⁠1 in 1908
9

FinalHigh 40°F, low 28°F

In the newspapers

  • The Omaha daily bee's story: WISCONSIN DEFEATS MARQUETTE Team from Milwaukee Leads at End of First Half.

    Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 2, 1908, page 1

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    WISCONSIN DEFEATS MARQUETTE Team from Milwaukee Leads at End of First Half. MADISON, Wis, Nov. WISCONSIN universlty of Milwaukee on the gridiorn yes terday in the first game in which these two teams ever came together, the game ending with a score of . to 6. The first half was Marquettc’s by a narrow margin, each team scoring a touchdown, but Mar quette was fortunate in kicking goal, while Wisconsin failed. T~wenty-three minutes after the first half started Wilce carried the ball over. Mess mer failed to kick goal. Score: Wisconsin, s; Marquette, %. A forward pass, Wright TO Foley, the latter ran seventy yards with splendid in terft renee and placed the ball squarely between the goal posts. Wright kicked goal. Score; Marquette, 8; Wisconsin. s. The ball was i’m Wisconsin’s territory nearly all OF the second half, Moll tried another goal kick from the twenty-five yard line. but failed again. He finally tried a drop kick from the two-ysTd line and made II. Score; Wisconsin, 3; Marquette, G.

  • The The mirror's story: football Scores.

    The mirror, Stillwater, Minn., November 5, 1908, page 3 (results column)

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    football Scores. Minnesota received sever. drubbiug in Chicago last Saturday and failed to make single score The following are the scores play ed by the different teams: Chicago, 20; Minnesota, O Michigan, “a; Vanderbilt, 6. Nebraska, IL; Iowa, 8. Illinois, 10; Indiana, O. Wisconsin, 9; Marquette, 6. Carlisle, Is; Navy, 6. Yale, 40; Mass Aggies, 0. Harvard, 6; Brown, 2. Cornell, 10; Penn. State, 4. Princeton, O; Army, 0. Syracuse, %; Williams, O.

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)

Wisconsin 92% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Wisconsin leads 32–⁠4 in 36 meetings, counting the 33 since this game.

Recent meetings
1960Wisconsin 35, Marquette 6
1959Wisconsin 44, Marquette 6
1958Wisconsin 50, Marquette 0
1957Wisconsin 60, Marquette 6
1956Wisconsin 41, Marquette 0
1955Wisconsin 28, Marquette 14

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