Yale at Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 12, 1935

Yale beat Pennsylvania 31–⁠20. It was their 15th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 14–⁠1.

AwayYale6–⁠3 in 1935
31
HomePennsylvania4–⁠4 in 1935
20

FinalHigh 65°F, low 52°F, 0.1 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome daily nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome daily nugget, October 14, 1935, page 7 (results column)

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    Football Scores Indiana 0 Michigan ‘ Kansas 0 Michigan state AZ Drake ‘ Ohio State 85 w Virginia 6 Pittsburgh “A Williams 2 Princeton IA Purdue 20 Fordham 0 Cornell IA Syracuse 21 Yale 31 Pennsylvania 20 Holy Cross 13 Harvard 0 Carnegie Tech 6 New York 25 Minnesota 12 Nebraska 2 Notre Dame 27 Wisconsin 0 Cal 6 Oregon 0 UCLA 2 Stanford 6 Whitman 7 Idaho 0 Wash State 13 Montana 2 West Maryland 0 Penn state 2 Bucknell 0 Villanova 25 Louisiana state 3. Manhattan nothing Gettysburg 0 Army 54 Colgate 6 Iowa 12 Illinois 19 Southern Cal 0 Bates 2 Dartmouth 59 Marietta 0 Oberlin 2 Mississippi 20 Alabama 2 Florida 0 Tulane 19 Creighton 0 Rice Inst. IA College Pacific 0 St. Marys B Vanderbilt 3 Temple 3 Catholic U 6 Duquesne 0 Okla Aggies 0 Detroit 13 Kansas States 0 Marquette IA s Dakota 0 N Dakota 25 Missouri School Mines 0 St. Louis 38

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)

Pennsylvania 52% to win. Yale won as Elo’s underdog.

Yale leads 45–⁠24–⁠1 in 70 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Yale 35, Pennsylvania 13
2024Yale 31, Pennsylvania 10
2023Pennsylvania 27, Yale 17
2022Pennsylvania 20, Yale 13
2021Yale 42, Pennsylvania 28
2019Yale 46, Pennsylvania 41

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