Cornell at Princeton

Saturday, October 18, 1930

Cornell beat Princeton 12–⁠7. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 15–⁠5.

AwayCornell6–⁠2 in 1930
12
HomePrinceton1–⁠5–⁠1 in 1930
7

FinalHigh 70°F, low 46°F, 0.07 in. of rainAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The New Britain herald's story

    New Britain herald, Connecticut, October 23, 1930, page 11

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    Annapolis, Md.-The recent shake up in the Navy’s varsity evidently has brought much needed inl- provement. The regulars put over five touchdowns against the Plebes yesterday as the revamped team had it’s first real tryout. Princeton. N. J.-Princeton finally has veteran end to use against Navy this week, Langdon “Biffy’‘ Lea got into yesterdays scrimmage against Rider college for his first hard drill since the season opened. West Point. \. Y.-Right guard trouble is afflicting the Army team in it’s preparations for Yale. Hili- singer, regular guard, is out agaln and none of three candidates, Tricc Carlson and Gallagher, has proved entirely satisfactory. New York-Something of dis tance record for football fandom has been established by Major J. J. Travis, who took commercial course at N. Y. L., a few years ago. Yesterday a cable was received from him from Moscow. Russia, saying, Gable Fordham result” Hanover, N. H.-More compiled tions have been added to Dart mouths preparations for the Har- ward game. Examinations causel most of the Green players to miss practice yesterday. Ithaca, N. VA 12–⁠7 victory over Princeton and two weeks to pre- pare for Columbia evidently is not enough to satisfy Coach Gil Dobie Of Cornell. Dobie showed q lot ot dissatisfaction at the work of the big Red team in the Princeton game and rumors of changes in the var sity lineup followed. New Haven, Conn.-Mal Stevens has new football pastime at Yale which may give him a winning com bination. It is playing checkers with his backfields. Yesterday $ moves sent Pat Sullivan. i5os fresh- man quarterback in to direct Crow ley, Dunn and Parker while Albie Booth worked with Austen, Taylor and Muhlfeld.

  • The Evening star's story: Powerful Cornell Team Wins When Princeton Rally Fails

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 19, 1930, page 70

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    Powerful Cornell Team Wins When Princeton Rally Fails with only three substitutions, and the Tigers confined their offensive EFFORTS almost entirely to the aerial route, which proved alternately good ana very bad. Pass Accounts for Score. However, 1t helped Princeton to tally their only touchdown, in the third quarter, after PendergASt recovered nlInt flinabled by Boyer, Cornell quarterback, on the latter’s 14-yard line: This was one of the numerous breaks. /“ The kicking game proved damaging 70 the Ithacans. who received punts Is poorly as they got most OF them on. Bogar’s l0-yard pass to James and 3-yard gallop around end by Nicholson, substitute Tiger back, produced the touchdown. II was Cornells second straight victory over Princeton and kept the Ithacans’ slate clean. The Tigers met their second successive setback of the season showing improvement that was manifest chiefly on the defense.

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 51% to win. Cornell won as Elo’s underdog.

Princeton leads 54–⁠30–⁠2 in 86 meetings, counting the 66 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Cornell 20, Princeton 17
2024Cornell 49, Princeton 35
2023Princeton 14, Cornell 3
2022Princeton 35, Cornell 9
2021Princeton 34, Cornell 16
2019Princeton 21, Cornell 7

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