Ursinus at Swarthmore

Saturday, November 2, 1912

Swarthmore beat Ursinus 22–⁠0. It was their second meeting; Swarthmore leads the series 2–⁠0.

AwayUrsinus0–⁠4 in 1912
0
HomeSwarthmore7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1912
22

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: EASY FOR SWARTHMORE. Ursinus Goes Down to Defeat By Score of 90 to @.

    Evening star, November 3, 1912, page 62

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    EASY FOR SWARTHMORE. Ursinus Goes Down to Defeat By Score of 90 to @. COLLHiEVILLE, Pa, November q Two blocked punts helped Swarthmore TO defeat Ursinus here today by the score of 20 to o. Ursinus team is composed chiefly of new men, but from whistle TO whistle they battled bravely to stave off defeat at the hands of the veteran Swarthmore eleven. Swarthmore has a reputation for It’s success in handling the forward pass, but out of nineteen at tempts to use this form of open style of play today only five succeeded. Twice in the second period Ursinus held Swarthmore for downs within the 15-yard line only to have their punts blocked and the ball fall into a Swarthmore mans hands for easy touchdowns. No substitutions were made by either team. The

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)

Swarthmore 88% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Swarthmore leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings.

Recent meetings
1912Swarthmore 22, Ursinus 0
1903Swarthmore 27, Ursinus 0

Around this game

Ursinus

Swarthmore