The Citadel at Davidson

Saturday, October 24, 1914

Davidson beat The Citadel 16–⁠0. It was their second meeting; after it, Davidson led the series 1–⁠0–⁠1.

AwayThe Citadel2–⁠5 in 1914
0
HomeDavidson5–⁠1–⁠1 in 1914
16

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Anderson daily intelligencer's story: Failed to MIKE Showing.

    The Anderson daily intelligencer, Anderson, S.C., October 25, 1914, page 8

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    Failed to MIKE Showing. CHARLOTTE, n. c.. Oct. “a Straight football tactics of Davidson featured! By soua broken FIELD running by Fullback McKinnon, won from the Citadel this afternoon 16 to 0. Citade, rescrted to line shifts and forward passes. only one of the latter being successful. Davidson’s gains resulted for the most part from end runs. The South Carolinians did not make the showing expected OF them.

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)

Davidson 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The Citadel leads 29–⁠21–⁠4 in 54 meetings, counting the 52 since this game.

Recent meetings
2015The Citadel 69, Davidson 0
1981The Citadel 23, Davidson 3
1980The Citadel 31, Davidson 13
1976The Citadel 40, Davidson 6
1975The Citadel 44, Davidson 0
1974The Citadel 56, Davidson 21

Around this game

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