Brown at Princeton
Saturday, October 12, 1929 Share
Brown beat Princeton 13–12. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 5–1.
FinalHigh 70°F, low 34°F
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 14, 1929, page 5 (results column)
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GRID GAMES ‘‘ ON SATURDAY The following are scores of prln- cipal games of football played last Saturday afternoon in various parts Of the country: Stanford 57; University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles 0. Oregon State II; Columbia Uni versity T. Oregon 34; Willamette 0. Southern California 43: Washing ton 0. Tulane 34; Mississippi A and M 0. Missouri 19; Iowa State O. Marquette 2; Grinnell g. Alabama 46; Chattanooga 0. Dartmouth 53; Alleghany 0. Illionis 45; Bradley 0. Ohio 21; Wesleyan T. Minnesota IS; Vanderbilt 6. Purdue 30; Michigan 16. Virginia .12; Swarthmore ‘. Harvard 35; New Hampshire 0. Fordham 27; New York Univer- sity 0. Chicago 13; Indiana T. Boston University 27; Vermont 6. Army 12; Davidson 2. Georgetown 13;- St. Louis Uni Carnegie Tech B; Reserves 6. versity O. Ohio State T; Iowa 6. Brown 13; Princeton 12. Columbia 52; Wesleyan 0. Nebraska 13; Syracuse 6. American University 8; George Washington 0. Colgate 31; Michigan State 0. Notre Dame IA; Navy T. California IS; Washington State O. Whitman II; Linfield 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)
Princeton 69% to win. Brown pulled the upset.
The series
Every Brown–Princeton gamePrinceton leads 49–22 in 71 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.
| 2026 | Princeton 16, Brown 10 | |
| 2025 | Princeton 40, Brown 21 | |
| 2024 | Princeton 29, Brown 17 | |
| 2023 | Brown 28, Princeton 27 | |
| 2022 | Princeton 35, Brown 19 | |
| 2021 | Princeton 56, Brown 42 |
Around this game
Brown
- Next gameat YaleOct. 19, 1929
- SeasonBrown in 1929
- ProgramBrown history and records
Princeton
- Next gameat CornellOct. 19, 1929
- SeasonPrinceton in 1929
- ProgramPrinceton history and records

