Army at Pittsburgh
Saturday, November 9, 1935 Share
Pittsburgh beat Army 29–6. It was their third meeting; after it, Pittsburgh led the series 3–0.
FinalAttendance 68,000
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, November 9, 1935, page 1 (results column)
Read the text
GRID SCORES. The following are final scores of football games received at press time this afternoon. Washington 0; California IA. Northwestern IA Notre Dame T. Navy 13; Penn 0. St. Mary’s q; Fordham 2. Harvard 0; Princeton 35. Brown o; Yale 20. Marquette 13; Michigan State 2. Army 6; Pitt 29. Purdue o; Wisconsin 8. Carnegie Tech 0; Holy Cross 2. Indiana l3; Maryland 2.
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
- ETHIOPS EAGER FOR COMBATRegaining their usual power and drive, the Panthers overwhelm Army, 29 to 6, as 68,000 watch
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)
Pittsburgh 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Army–Pittsburgh gamePittsburgh leads 19–6–2 in 27 meetings, counting the 24 since this game.
| 1983 | Pittsburgh 38, Army 7 | |
| 1982 | Pittsburgh 24, Army 6 | |
| 1981 | Pittsburgh 48, Army 0 | |
| 1980 | Pittsburgh 45, Army 7 | |
| 1979 | Pittsburgh 40, Army 0 | |
| 1978 | Pittsburgh 35, Army 17 |
Around this game
Army
- Next gameat Notre DameNov. 16, 1935
- SeasonArmy in 1935
- ProgramArmy history and records
Pittsburgh
- Next gamevs. NebraskaNov. 16, 1935
- SeasonPittsburgh in 1935
- ProgramPittsburgh history and records