Penn State at Syracuse

Saturday, November 2, 1929

Penn State beat Syracuse 6–⁠4. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Syracuse led the series 4–⁠2–⁠2.

AwayPenn State6–⁠3 in 1929
6
HomeSyracuse6–⁠3 in 1929
4

FinalHigh 69°F, low 49°F, 0.17 in. of rainAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: PENN STATE ELEVEN : DEFEATS SYRACUSE

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1929, page 93

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    PENN STATE ELEVEN : DEFEATS SYRACUSE SYRACUSE, N. Y, November 2 R.- Penn State scored 6-to-4 victory over Syracuse University here today before a crowd of 10000 persons. Syracuse was the first to score, the result of tumble when Evans, Penn punter, forced behind his goal to kick, let the ball roll into the end zone. With Diedrich and French carrying the ball the Nittany Lions came back strongly and passed midfeld Diedrich then shot long pass to Meyer Kaplan, who raced over the line for a touchdown. The try for goal failed. In the lest period the Orange raised their points to 4 when French went back to kick and grounded the ball be-

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

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 4, 1929, page 8 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are scores of i’m portant football games played Sat- urday in various parts of the Unit ed States: St. Ignatius IA; Gonzalez ‘. California 15; Southern California ‘. Willamette 25; Pacific 0. Oregon 27; University of Califor- mia at Los Angeles 0. Washington State g; Oregon State 0. Kansas Aggies 2; Missouri 6. Purdue 13; Wisconsin O. Minnesota 19; Indiana T. Carnegie Tech 19; Washington University O. Notre Dame 26: Georgia Tech 6 Nebraska 13; Kansas 6. Princeton 2; Chicago l5. Yale 16; Dartmouth 12. Harvard IA; Florida 0. Penn State 6; Syracuse 4. Amherst 13; Mass. Aggies o. Army 33; South Dakota 6. Ohio IA; Miami 0. Georgetown IA; New York 0. Cornell 12; Columbia 6. Northwestern T; Illinois o. Stanford 39; California Tech 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)

Syracuse 63% to win. Penn State won as Elo’s underdog.

Penn State leads 43–⁠23–⁠5 in 71 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.

Recent meetings
2013Penn State 23, Syracuse 17
2009Penn State 28, Syracuse 7
2008Penn State 55, Syracuse 13
1990Penn State 27, Syracuse 21
1989Penn State 34, Syracuse 12
1988Syracuse 24, Penn State 10

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