Penn State at Syracuse
Saturday, November 2, 1929 Share
Penn State beat Syracuse 6–4. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Syracuse led the series 4–2–2.
FinalHigh 69°F, low 49°F, 0.17 in. of rainAttendance 12,000
In the newspapers

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 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.
The series
Every Penn State–Syracuse gamePenn State leads 43–23–5 in 71 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.
| 2013 | Penn State 23, Syracuse 17 | |
| 2009 | Penn State 28, Syracuse 7 | |
| 2008 | Penn State 55, Syracuse 13 | |
| 1990 | Penn State 27, Syracuse 21 | |
| 1989 | Penn State 34, Syracuse 12 | |
| 1988 | Syracuse 24, Penn State 10 |
Around this game
Penn State
- Next gameat PennsylvaniaNov. 9, 1929
- SeasonPenn State in 1929
- ProgramPenn State history and records
Syracuse
- Next gamevs. NiagaraNov. 9, 1929
- SeasonSyracuse in 1929
- ProgramSyracuse history and records

