Wake Forest at South Carolina

Saturday, October 23, 1909

Wake Forest beat South Carolina 8–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Wake Forest led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayWake Forest2–⁠4 in 1909
8
HomeSouth Carolina2–⁠6 in 1909
0

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Wake Forest Downs South Carolina.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 24, 1909, page 61

    Read the text

    Wake Forest Downs South Carolina. COLUMBIA, >. C., UctODer 2}.-WaKe Forest today defeated the University of South Carolina, 8 to o. The visitors touchdown was made in the first half. when Utley recovered a punt on Carolina’s 3O-yard line and went for touch down. In the second half wild pass by Cardinals center resulted in a safety. The University showed up well on the offense, nut fumbled many punts, and this cost 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)

South Carolina 57% to win. Wake Forest won as Elo’s underdog.

South Carolina leads 34–⁠20–⁠2 in 56 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.

Recent meetings
1987South Carolina 30, Wake Forest 0
1986South Carolina 48, Wake Forest 21
1981South Carolina 23, Wake Forest 6
1980South Carolina 39, Wake Forest 38
1979South Carolina 35, Wake Forest 14
1978South Carolina 37, Wake Forest 14

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