Pennsylvania at Princeton

Saturday, October 5, 1935

Princeton beat Pennsylvania 7–⁠6. It was their 32nd meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 30–⁠2.

AwayPennsylvania4–⁠4 in 1935
6
HomePrinceton9–⁠0 in 1935
7

FinalHigh 60°F, low 32°FAttendance 50,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, October 7, 1935, page 15

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    by tQc hSSOClhLeQ FTeSS. ~ RINCETON, N. J.-Heres once – when the usually submerged linemen get plenty of credit. 4 Fritz Crisler, Princeton coach pointed out to every one interested that it was Right Guard Bill Mont gomery who blocked Penn’s try for q point after the Quaker touchdown Saturday and enabled the Tigers tc score 7–⁠6 victory. 1--WE went into the contest q group of individuals and came out a team, Crisler said. “It was entirely team victory. Penn has beautiful team with a powerful set of backs and our line did yeoman service in standing up under the pounding” NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. this explains why Art Guepe Is considered Marquettes first-string quarterback, although his twin brother AL also is a candidate for the position. Arts BIRTH day anniversary is January % and AIS January 20, giving Art the privileges of an colder” brother. MoRGANTowN, w. va.-After N- three years Of playing host to the Pitt Panthers without much sue cess, the West Virginia Mountaineers are going to Pittsburgh this week, with hopes of changing their luck. This seasons game is the first they have played in Pitt Stadium since 1881. incidentally. West Virginia is seeking its ninth victory over Pitt in 80 games. DETROIT-Another reason for the high cost of foot ball: The Detroit T1tans will use two sets of jerseys this year-lightweight one with red numbers on . white background for the early season games, red wool numbered In white for the late,

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.

On the newsreel

  • PRINCETON NOSES OUT PENNA fighting Tiger eleven marches down the gridiron in a brilliant last-quarter drive to snatch victory from a Red and Blue team by the score of 7 to 6, rousing 49,000 football fans to wild excitementUniversal Newsreel, October 7, 1935. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Princeton 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Princeton leads 63–⁠31–⁠1 in 95 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Pennsylvania 17, Princeton 6
2024Princeton 20, Pennsylvania 17
2023Princeton 31, Pennsylvania 24
2022Pennsylvania 20, Princeton 19
2021Princeton 34, Pennsylvania 14
2019Princeton 28, Pennsylvania 7

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