Pennsylvania at Illinois
Saturday, October 30, 1926 Share
Illinois beat Pennsylvania 3–0. It was their second meeting; Illinois leads the series 2–0.
FinalHigh 53°F, low 40°F, 0.48 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Imperial Valley press, November 1, 1926, page 7 (results column)
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SATURDAY WAS POOR DAY FOR STAR ELEVENS Fayorite Teams Defeated By Underlings All Over Country. NEW YORK, Nov. l.-Following another Saturday Of violent disturb ances and gridiron tornadocs, some OF the most fancy football nachi7cry was strcwn along in the ditchts that already had been we’ll filled with wreckage from earlier season storms. Poor Yale, poor Dartmouth, poor Princeton, poor Harvard ami lot of other poors and poorers, had their dignity restored when they looked about in the junk pile and found mighty Michigan Of week ago, mighty Pennsylvania and mighty Southern California looking with them for what might be sal vagcd 1t is not within memory, even II it be IA matter of record, that three teams of the vaunted power OF Michigan, Pennsylvania and South crn California went down to such surprising defeats on the same Sat urday. Michigan. western conference champions of 1925 and favorite to rcDeat, came east with the aN-American Friedman and Oosterbaan and was sideswiped off the road by a fine navy team. PENNSYLVANIA, conceded to be the most promising team in the east, invaded the “big ten territory and was cut off the main Pike by illinois It might be said that the last min ute kick of Frosty Peters that beat Penn 3 to 0 was lucky break, but Michigan with the most powerful microscopes science knows, cOuldn t find an excuse or an alibi. Army Navy Glass These upsetS we’re not the only surprises of the Weekend and IN Il reimbursement of estimates the real class looks Ike Army, Navy and Brown in the east; Ohio State and ! Notrc’ Dame in the middle west. Missouri in the Missouri Valley con. ference: Alabama in the south, and on The F.cific coast, Stanford. Army, %avv, Brown, Lafayette and New York university remain undcfeated in the east and the Ar my and Navy have better right to ! preference because of the schedules -hev have played Considering the scores made Sat urday, the Navy might bc given an edge over the army. The army | looked great in defeating Yale. 80 to o. but if must he recognized that ! Yale is much worse than was first thought Navy, on the other hand showed the greatest of class in defeating “A really great team and The midshipmen demonstrated the best defense of the season in stopping dead the versatile attack OF Il great otfcus. i’ve team. The results If last week : games set M number of the most appcaling and interesting battles on the calendar. II does not require any magma I tion to picture the Army and 40 tire Dame in battle, Ohio State and , Michigan in action and last, aud perhaps best Of all, Army and Navy / in their annual tight, ! The “ Big three series starts this week with the opener hctWccr Harvard and Princeton and, straug, 10 SAY, Harvard viii enter Il favor lie.

The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, November 1, 1926, page 6 (results column)
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Football Results BIG TEN Minnesota l6; Wisconsin TO- Illinois 3: Penn 0. Ohio State Is: Chicago o. Iowa 81; Carroll o. Northwestern u; Indiana q. Purdue 80: Indiana Normal o. WEST Nebraska 81; Amcs o. Drake IL: Kansas 0. Mornngsidc “a; Western l’niversity 0. Kansas Aggic l6; Arkansas {. Lombard 1S; Butler o. Akroa o: Baldwin-Wallacc O. John Carroll lS: Adrian O. Obcrlin 6; Case o. Western Reserve II; Cincinnati 9. De Paul 81: La Crosse Normal IA. Marquette 81; Creighton 0. Haskell &c; Bucknell 0. Loloya 20: Chicago Y. NJ. c. 4. Col legc 7. Bradley IA; Wabash 0. Franklin 0: Dc Paw 0. Oklahoma p: Washington 0. Utah Aggies Z; Denver g. Colorado College q; Colorado Il” Miami l6; Denver 0. Mount Union 90: Hiram o. Ohio Northern “a: Heidelberg 8. Defiance Z Celarville @. bowling Green u; Mt. Pleasant O.

Evening star, October 31, 1926, page 1 (results column)
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Outstanding Foot Ball Games of Yesterday Navy, 10; Michigan, 0. Army. 33; Yale, 0. Princeton. q; Swarthmore, 0. Illinois, 3; Pennsylvania, 0. Harvard, So: Tufts. 6. Notre Dame, 12; Georgia Tech. 0. Columbia, II: Cornell, 9. Minnesota. 16: Wisconsin. 10. Stanford, 13; Southern Cali fOrnia, 12. Maryland, 38: Ga.laudet. :. Georgetown, 81; Lebanon Val ley. :. Penn State, 20; George Wash. ington, 12.
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)
Illinois 57% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Pennsylvania–Illinois gameIllinois leads 2–0 in two meetings.
| 1926 | Illinois 3, Pennsylvania 0 | |
| 1925 | Illinois 24, Pennsylvania 2 |
Around this game
Pennsylvania
- Next gamevs. Penn StateNov. 6, 1926
- SeasonPennsylvania in 1926
- ProgramPennsylvania history and records
Illinois
- Next gameat ChicagoNov. 6, 1926
- SeasonIllinois in 1926
- ProgramIllinois history and records

