West Virginia Wesleyan at Navy

Saturday, November 23, 1929

Navy beat West Virginia Wesleyan 30–⁠6. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Navy led the series 6–⁠1.

AwayWest Virginia Wesleyan0–⁠4 in 1929
6
HomeNavy6–⁠2–⁠2 in 1929
30

FinalHigh 35°F, low 29°F, 0.98 in. of snow

In the newspapers

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

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 25, 1929, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The fo.iowing are -:nai scores of important football games played in various parts of the states last Saturday afternoon: Chicago 26; University of Wash ington 6. Stanford 21; California 6. Oregon Aggies IA; University of Detroit 2. Oregon T; Hawaii 0. University of Southern California 72; Idaho 0. Notre Dame 26; Northwestern 6. Army 19; Ohio Wesleyan 6. Navy 30; West Virginia Wesleyan 6. Harvard 10; Yale 6. New York University 20; Rutgers V. Illinois 27; Ohio 0. Lehigh 13; Lafayette 12 Michigan 0; Iowa 0. Swarthmore 32; Dickinson 0. Florida 20; South Carolina 2. Missouri 2; Kansas 0. Nebraska 10; Kansas Aggies 6. Purdue 32; Indiana O. Minnesota IS; Wisconsin 12. Washington State 27; Gonzaga

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)

Navy 93% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Navy leads 7–⁠1–⁠1 in nine meetings, counting the two since this game.

Recent meetings
1931West Virginia Wesleyan 0, Navy 0
1930Navy 37, West Virginia Wesleyan 14
1929Navy 30, West Virginia Wesleyan 6
1928Navy 37, West Virginia Wesleyan 0
1927Navy 26, West Virginia Wesleyan 0
1926Navy 53, West Virginia Wesleyan 7

Around this game

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