Navy at Princeton

Saturday, October 25, 1930

Navy beat Princeton 31–⁠0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 10–⁠5–⁠4.

AwayNavy6–⁠5 in 1930
31
HomePrinceton1–⁠5–⁠1 in 1930
0

FinalHigh 46°F, low 36°FAttendance 45,000

In the newspapers

  • The Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current's story: Middies Defeat Princeton 80 In Good Tilt

    Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, October 26, 1930, page 1

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    Middies Defeat Princeton 80 In Good Tilt PRINCETON. N. j.. Oct. 25-P “A Navy football team, which had been defeated by Notre Dame and Duke. came TO Palmer stadium today and made football history at the expense Of Princeton By defeat ing the Tigers, 81 TO o. No team but Yale has doHned the Tiger by a score OF 81 to b. and Yale. say Princeton men. has not accomplished the feat since the gay 90’s. Princeton never had “a chance NJ win today while Navy varied with a rush and looked better as the game went along. The winners scored 20 first downs 10 three for the losers and gained In rushing plays 303 yards 70 81 for Princeton

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

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 27, 1930, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are scores of i’m portant football games played in various parts of the states last Sat- urday: California 0; University of Wash ington 13. Montana 0; Washington State 61. Idaho 6; Oregon 20. University of Southern Califor- mia 41; Stanford 12. Colgate 40; Penn State 0. : Purdue T; Wisconsin 6. Kansas 20; Iowa State 6. Mississippi 0; Chicago o. Ohio 27; Miami 6. Northwestern 45; Centre ‘. Tulane 28; Georgia Tech 0. Alabama 12; Vanderbilt 2. Pittsburgh 19; Notre Dame 35. Yale 2; Army T. Princeton 0; Navy 31. Michigan IS; Illinois 2. Brown 13; Holy Cross o. Dartmouth T; Harvard 2. Columbia 3; Williams 0. Carnegie Tech 40; Reserves 8. Fordham T; New Yo~‘- Uniyer- sity 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)

Navy 51% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Princeton leads 18–⁠12–⁠6 in 36 meetings, counting the 17 since this game.

Recent meetings
1984Navy 41, Princeton 3
1983Navy 37, Princeton 29
1953Navy 65, Princeton 7
1951Princeton 24, Navy 20
1950Princeton 20, Navy 14
1949Navy 28, Princeton 7

Around this game

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