Denver at Colorado

Saturday, October 21, 1916

Denver beat Colorado 7–⁠0. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Colorado led the series 6–⁠3.

AwayDenver4–⁠2–⁠1 in 1916
7
HomeColorado1–⁠5–⁠1 in 1916
0

FinalHigh 63°F

In the newspapers

  • The Western liberal's story: SPORT.

    Western liberal, Lordsburg, N.M., October 27, 1916, page 1

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    SPORT. Mabel Trask won the Georgia Rail way and Power cup for 2:OS trotters at the Grand Circuit meeting at At lanta. The University of Wyoming won their first conference game of the year at Logan, Utah, defeating the Utah Aggies, 20 to 10. Roam Hal, the 2:OSA PAGER, took in straight heats the $1,000 2~:OO-class pacing race, the feature at Atlanta, Ca, at the close of the Grand Circuit meeting, from Hal Boy. The individual pistol match, the concluding event on the National AS sociation’s program, was won at Jack sonville, Fla, by George e. Cook Of Washington, d. c., who scored 1856 out of a possible 420 points. A sensational forty-five-yard forward pass from Mahony to Preston gave Denver University a touchdown against Colorado at Boulder in the last thirty-five seconds of play. Milton kicked goal, making the total score 7 to 0 for the Ministers. Five thousand people witnessed the game. Howard Berry, the pentathlon cham pion, just back from the Mexican Dor der where he spent three months in the National Guard, played sensations al football on Franklin field at Phila. delphia and carried the University OF Pennsylvania to a 15-to-O victory over the strong eleven from Pennsylvania State College.

  • The Cheyenne record's story: SPORT.

    Cheyenne record, October 26, 1916, page 7

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    SPORT. Mabel Trask won the Georgia Rail-. at the Grand Circuit Meeting at At. lanta. The University or Wyoming won their first conference game of the year at Logan, Utah, defeating the Utah Aggies, 23 to 10. Roam Hal, the 2:03A PAGER, took in straight heats the $1,000 2:OO-class pacing race, the feature at Atlanta, Ca. at the close of the Grand Circuit; meeting. from Hal Boy. The individual pistol match, the concluding event on the National AS. sociation’s program, was won at Jack. sonville, Fla, by George E. Cook OF Washington, D. c., who scored 3S5 out Of possible 420 points. A sensational forty-five-yard forward pass from Mahony to Preston gave Denver University touchdown against Colorado at Boulder in the last thirty-five seconds Of play. Milton kicked goal, making the total score 7 to 0 for the Ministers. Five thousand people witnessed the game. Howard Berry, the pentathlon cham. pion, just back from the Mexican Dor. der where he spent three months In the National Guard, played sensation. al football on Franklin field at Phila. delphia and carried the University OF Pennsylvania to 15-to-0 victory over the strong eleven from Pennsylvania State College.

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)

Colorado 55% to win. Denver won as Elo’s underdog.

Colorado leads 21–⁠14–⁠4 in 39 meetings, counting the 30 since this game.

Recent meetings
1947Denver 26, Colorado 20
1946Denver 13, Colorado 13
1945Denver 14, Colorado 8
1944Colorado 16, Denver 14
1942Colorado 31, Denver 6
1941Denver 27, Colorado 0

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