Lafayette at Pennsylvania

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 17, 1920, page 28

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  PENN is LUCKY TO WIN Straus Retrieves tumble to Score Only Touchdown in Game With LAFAYETTE. PHILADELPHIA, October 16-Ability to follow the ball enabled the University Of Pennsylvania to defeat Lafayette College on Franklin Field today by the score Of to O. In the first half Lafayette outplayed the Red and Blue team, marching the ball to the 3-yard line. only to lose it on downs. In the third period Straus scooped up a tumble and raced 80 yards for the only score. He also kicked the goal. Lafayette attempted numerous for ward passes. but the receivers were unable to handle them. Pennsylvania was more successful in this respect.

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.

Pennsylvania leads 55–⁠21–⁠4 in 80 meetings, counting the 39 since this game.