Carlisle at Delaware

Tuesday, November 24, 1914

Delaware beat Carlisle 33–⁠0. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayCarlisle5–⁠10–⁠1 in 1914
0
HomeDelaware1–⁠1 in 1914
33

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening journal's story: Delaware CRUSHES CARLISLE RESERVES Indians Hardly See Home Teams Goal in One OF Best Games ONLY ONE DEFEAT FOR BLUE AND GOLD

    Evening journal, November 27, 1914, page 13

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    Delaware CRUSHES CARLISLE RESERVES Indians Hardly See Home Teams Goal in One OF Best Games ONLY ONE DEFEAT FOR BLUE AND GOLD Special to THE IN NENlNG lOl RNAl. NEWARK, Nov. 27 by playing a brilliant game from start 10 finish against the Carlisle Indian Reserves yesterday afternoon which game they won 3A to o, the Delaware College foot ball team brought to close the most successful season ON The gridiron in the history OF the institution. The team lost but one game during the season, that being the opening contest with Lafayette. Ideal weather brought ont “A large crowd. there beng many automobile parties from Wilmington. Although 0utweiphcd, the blue aud gold clearly outcnsscd their opponents in every point of the game. The Indians were on the defensive practically all of the game. as Delaware had the ball most OF the time. While the Reserves several times hraccd aud held Delaware, they were never near the blue and gold goat The Delaware team showed the result OF thc’ hard training that they have re. ccivcd this season under Coach McAvoy aud when Che Indians would get the ball they were unable TO make consistent gains. aS the quick blue aud gold play er- often got the man with the bal bacl, of the line of scrimmage for d ] loss. The game yesterday was the last Tor { ann and t’rieycs. two OF the linesmen as they both graduate next June. The lineup follows

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)

Carlisle 89% to win. Delaware pulled the upset.

Delaware leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

Around this game

Carlisle

Delaware