Brown at Princeton

Saturday, October 12, 1929

Brown beat Princeton 13–⁠12. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 5–⁠1.

AwayBrown5–⁠5 in 1929
13
HomePrinceton2–⁠4–⁠1 in 1929
12

FinalHigh 70°F, low 34°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID GAMES '' ON SATURDAY

    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.

Princeton leads 49–⁠22 in 71 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Princeton 16, Brown 10
2025Princeton 40, Brown 21
2024Princeton 29, Brown 17
2023Brown 28, Princeton 27
2022Princeton 35, Brown 19
2021Princeton 56, Brown 42

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