Swarthmore at Pennsylvania

Sunday, November 3, 1918

Swarthmore beat Pennsylvania 20–⁠12. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 16–⁠4.

AwaySwarthmore1–⁠1 in 1918
20
HomePennsylvania5–⁠3 in 1918
12

FinalHigh 46°F, low 23°F

In the newspapers

  • The Arizona republican's story

    Arizona republican, Arizona, November 3, 1918, page 8

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    each in the remaining two quarters. Blocki, formerly of the University of Chicago scrambled through the entire Northwestern team for a 39-yard run Shat resulted in the final touch down. NEW YORK, Nov. 2-Columbia de- feated Amherst 21 to ‘ today. Colum- bias superior weight won. Columbia’s three touchdowns were earned by straight line smashing and few spectacular end runs. Amherst’s score came at the end of the second period when she gained the ball on a tumble on Columbia’s 25-yard line and pushed it over: Amherst was again near scoring at the end of the lst period. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Nov. D. Within a few minutes after the open ing of the game between the Dart mouth and Syracuse S. A. T. c. teams on Pratt field this afternoon, the out come was merely a question of how much the Syracuse score would exceed that of the Hanover team, and after. the AS minutes of play the result was, Syracuse 34, Dartmouth 6. Virginia Polytechnic institute 13, Washington and Lee o. IOWA CITY, Iowa, Nov. 2.-Perfectly executed forward passes and machine like team work centered around a back field of stars, returned Illinois victor over Iowa here today 19 to 0. Illinois, in each scoring instance, car ried the ball to within a few yards of the line of line plunges and forward passes, then shot man around the end for the touchdown. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2.-The foot ball team from Camp Zachary Taylor defeated Indiana university here today ‘ to 3. All the scoring was done in the second period, the other periods be- | ing played largely near the center of the field. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. D. The Swarthmore college football team which took Lafayette’s place on the University of Pennsylvania schedule today won an easy victory from the red and blue by a score of 20 to 12 Pennsylvania rallied toward the end ot the game and scored two touchdowns in the last five minutes of play. LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov. 2.-After 24 Stdl Ol SuCNCSSlNt utlGdiSs I football team this afternoon on Stuart Field, defeated the University of Chi cago squad to 5. In the winning score Markley caught a long forward pass and then made { spectacular run of 20 yards. Tackled thrice, he left his headgear in tho hands of the last man as a souvenir. DES MONIES, Nov. 2-Grinnel Qowa) college football eleven swampeC Drake university here today II to o. CLEVELAND, Nov 2.-The Cleve !. land naval reserve football team out classed the Detroit naval reserves to 1 day, winning S3 to 0. ST. PAUL, Nov 2.-Minnesota de feated the light but fast football clever representing Carleton and St Olaf col leges at Northfield, Minn., 59 to her today. At East Lansing. Mich.-Michiga. Agricultural college 16, Kalamazoo Normal ‘. At Bethlehem, Pa-Philadelphi; Navy yard 14. Lehigh g. At Princeton, N. J-Princeton In formals ‘, Princeton Aviators O. At Newark, Del.-Delaware colleg 0. Pennsylvania Military college 0. At St. Louis-Washington universit, 26, Rolla School fo Mines o.

  • The The Washington times's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Washington times, District of Columbia, November 3, 1918, page 15 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES GalIaudet. {: St. Johns. o. Seamen Gunners, 8; Catholic Uni. versity, 6. Navy. Sc: st. Helena, o. Swarthmore. 20; Pennsylvania, 12 Syracuse. 35: Dartmouth, 6. Bowdoin. Z: Maine, 0. Army Medical School, o: Usaacs, o. Illinois. 10: Iowa, o. Municipal Pier. rs; Northwestern. o. Purdue, Z: Chicago, 3. Wisconsin, 81; Beloit, o. Grant. 45; Camp Benjamin Haarrison,, Z Camp Taylor, =; Indiana, 5. Camp Upton, 6; Mineola Aviators, o. Columbia, 81: Amherst. Z. Fordham. %: St Johns, o. Camp Merritt. Is: New York Uni Versity, 0. Vanderbilt, 80; University OF Ken tucky 0.

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)

Pennsylvania 86% to win. Swarthmore pulled the upset.

Pennsylvania leads 30–⁠4–⁠1 in 35 meetings, counting the 15 since this game.

Recent meetings
1932Pennsylvania 54, Swarthmore 0
1931Pennsylvania 32, Swarthmore 7
1930Pennsylvania 63, Swarthmore 0
1929Pennsylvania 20, Swarthmore 6
1928Pennsylvania 67, Swarthmore 0
1927Pennsylvania 33, Swarthmore 0

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