Maryland at Yale

Saturday, November 9, 1929

Maryland and Yale tied 13–⁠13. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 7–⁠2–⁠1.

AwayMaryland4–⁠4–⁠2 in 1929
13
HomeYale5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1929
13

FinalHigh 55°F, low 40°FAttendance 45,000

In the newspapers

  • The New Britain herald's story: Tc H4 F s~1 " @ Ro%o OVER ro~ sa 1ues LEADS HIS @ G @ -FOUR B|G GAMES ARE ON PROGRAM Quartet Of GridirOn Battles Hold Special Significance

    New Britain herald, November 11, 1929, page 8 (results column)

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    Tc H4 F s~1 “ @ Ro%o OVER ro~ sa 1ues LEADS HIS @ G @ -FOUR B|G GAMES ARE ON PROGRAM Quartet Of GridirOn Battles Hold Special Significance college football campaign fast draw ing “a spectacular close, tradition plays q big part in this weeks foot ball slate but for those who focus mostly upon the standing of the teams four battles hold special sig nitiCanCc in the cast, west and south. From this angle tho big gam IS are Notrc Dame Southern Califor- mia at Soldier Field Purdue-Iowa at Lafayette, Tennessee Vanderbilt at Knoxville and Pittsburgh -Carne- gio at Pitt Stadium. All have distinct bearing upon sectional as well as national cham pionship aspirations. for no teams anywhere have travcled q more int prcssivc route to victory to date than Notrc Dame. Purdue, Pitts burgh and Tennessce--al four un- beatcn\all united and all possessing terrific scoring punch with q fo@h of such great ball-Carriers number cd in their ranks as Elder and Ca ridco Harmeson and Welch, Unaa ga and Parkinson and McEver ani Hackman. Southern Calfornia’s setback at the hands of California, now tn” ring leader of the far western clan. upset some Of tho significance Of | the clash with Notrc Dame at Chi Cago, where close to l20,000 spccta- tors may be in on the party. But ! ,1f priming all season for Rocknc’s S l Ramblcrs and they may be the out | fit to stop the wild surge Of tho South Bend cyclone. Notrc Dame has swept through Indiana. Wis consin, Navy, Carnegie, Georgia Tech and Drake. The Hoosicrs will be ready with a, bagful of tricks for |, $. (. but they cannot shoot thu, works altogether, inasmuch as i Northwestern and the Army still turk along the path 10 an unbcGtea l sea son. Purduc’s Boilermakers lead the | Rig Ten all by them selves thanks to i IoWa’s upset Of Minnesota. Tho trouble with this situation, is that | the same Iowa cast. starring Glass GoW and the fiashy Pape. travels to | Lafayette this week with another upset in mind. Purdue. playing it homo, figures to be a favoritc but not hy very much. l Pittsburgh has steam rol,2rcd sev- en opponents. The Panthers have 1 the class to trim Carnegie but this 1 city warfare is one of the bitterest Of the year. The TartanS hell Notre Dame to one touchdown and ! may spring an upset. i Tho southern scramble finds tha two Tennessee rivals locked in a l battle that may decide the confer 1 ence championship or at least de termine whether the volunteers or | the Vanderbilt Commodores will share the peak with Tulane. Ten nesseo, high scoring outfit among l the teams neither beaten nor tied, 1 has not been beaten in three years. i but their winning streak will be subjected to a severe test by Eandy. Yale meets Princeton at New H1- ven in the biggest traditional game of the week, and anything may hap pen. For three weeks in a row the 1 Blue was unbeatable, with Alb:2 | Booth running wild. but Southern ! Conference foes have spoiled any claim the Ellis otherwise might havc | had to championship recognition. 1 They were upset by Georgia early i in October and tied last Saturday i by Maryland, 13–⁠13. after Booth ap- l parcntly had settled the issue and | left the game. Now Yale faces q desperate Princeton team that ha1 i lost three of it’s major games an1 tied the other. The battered Tigers are distinctly the underdogs bu; i they will be all set for a come back, | if Ed WittmnT can wage d mor1 successful duel with Albe Booth than either Red Caglc of the Army or Al Marstcrs of Dartmouth was able to dO If any further flavor is desired .n eastern rivalry, such games as Cor nelf-Dartmouth, Colgate Syrac cusc and Harvard Holy Cross can furn- | ish it. Cornell is among the few | teams with a clean slate and will | tackle Darmouth without having tc worry about Al Marsters. out of thr game for the rest of the season Colgate served warning on it. | Orange rival by a smashing G3.i victory over Columbia Saturday. The Army, back home after d.. feat by Illinois. has a let-up agains Dickinson while looking ahead tc the battle with Notre Dame. New York University, after rallying tc l beat Georgia, seeks another inter sectional scalp, Missouri, this week Michigan, having trimmed liar ward, while Minnesota was yieldin; to Iowa, now regards the tussl, with the Gophers more hopeful! than before. The Wolverines ma. win if they can stop Big Bronx, ! Nagurski, Mnnesota’s dcfcnsiv, tackle and offensive fullback. Nebraska has chance to clincl the Big Six title again by beatiui OkIahoma On the Pacific coast l ‘dllloIIlld IluSi peat W dSIllllSIOll l’ stay on ton and that may be any thing but 3 soft assignment sine the Husllies staged T great come hack to hold Stanford to a singl touchdown victory Saturday. TeX1 Christian, the only undcfcatod an, united team in the Southwest con I ference, must dispose of Texas, scc ond place holder. to maintain 1t supremacy. Southern Methodist au’ Baylor. neither Of which is out o the race, fight it for the rcmainin. honors. SINGER AS LIGHTWEIGHT

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

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 11, 1929, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following scores are the fi’ nals in the various football games played in the States last Saturday afternoon: Stanford 6; Washington 0. Washington State fl; Idaho ‘. Tulane 52; Auburn 0. Michigan State 33; Mississipp. Aggies 19. Illinois IT; Army ‘. California 53; Montana Is. Wisconsin 20; Chicago 6. Notre Dame 19; Drake T. Iowa Q; Minnesota 2. New York University 27; Georgia 19. Michigan IA; Harvard 12. Cornell 36; Western Reserve O. Colgate 33; Columbia 0. Yale 13; Maryland 13. Northwestern IS; Ohio State 6. Pittsburgh 21; Washington-Jef- ferson O. West Virginia O; Detroit 36. Southern California 66; Nevada 0. Pomona IS; Arizona 12. Vanderbilt 22; Georgia Tech ‘. Kansas T; Oklahoma 0. Amherst 13; Tufts 13. Princeton 20; Lehigh 0. Syracuse 20; Niagara 0. Bucknell g.; Villanova 0. Fordham T; Boston College 6. Maine %; Bowdoin 6. Penn State 19; Pennsylvania 2. Dartmouth 13; Brown 6.

  • The Evening star's story: FOOT BALL SCORES

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 10, 1929, page 1 (results column)

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    FOOT BALL SCORES Georgetown. o; Navy 0. Maryland, 13; Yale, 13. Duquesne, 10; Catholic u. IS. st. Joseph’s Of Philadelphia, IL; George Washington. Z. Washington College, 20: American u, l3. Illinois, II; Army, T. Michigan, ID; Harvard, IL. Princeton, 90; Lehigh, 0. Alabama, “a; Kentucky, 13. Iowa. 9; Minnesota, Z. Dartmouth, 13; Brown, 6. New York u, 81; Georgia, 19. Vanderbilt, %; Georgia Tech, Z. Notre Dame, 10; Drake, Z. Stanford, 6; Washington, 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)

Yale 73% to win.

Yale leads 8–⁠2–⁠1 in 11 meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1930Yale 40, Maryland 13
1929Maryland 13, Yale 13
1928Maryland 6, Yale 0
1927Yale 30, Maryland 6
1926Maryland 15, Yale 0
1925Yale 43, Maryland 14

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