Navy at Princeton

Saturday, October 24, 1936

Princeton beat Navy 7–⁠0. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 13–⁠6–⁠5.

AwayNavy6–⁠3 in 1936
0
HomePrinceton4–⁠2–⁠2 in 1936
7

FinalHigh 60°F, low 48°F, 0.02 in. of rainAttendance 45,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: MIDDIES Will VENT SPLEEN ON QUAKERS Team Not Discouraged Following Defeats by Yale, Princeton. Casuals Return.

    Evening star, October 26, 1936, page 13

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    MIDDIES Will VENT SPLEEN ON QUAKERS Team Not Discouraged Following Defeats by Yale, Princeton. Casuals Return. special Dispatch to The star. A NNAPOLIS, October 26-Navy = people generally regard a victory over Pennsylvania at Philadelpnla next Saturday as essential after defeats on successive Saturdays by Yale and Princeton and will start tomorrow to prepare definitely for that contest. However, the losses to two OF the “Big Four” of Eastern foot ball were not such as to discourage the team in any way or weaken the confidence Of its friends. In both games the Navy team had o big edge on both running and passing yardage and dis played splendid offensive power ana versatility. Penn all along has been regarded as one of the Navy’s hardest opponents this season, q view which was strengthened by its victory over Princeton, 50 that victory would De vastly encouraging to the Navy team: The restored physical condition OF Frank Case, Frank Lynch ana Irwin Fike has strengthened the manpower Of the team. Lynch will take nus turn with Ferrara at left tackle ana Fike and Heber play at end, while Case generally viii be In his OLD position as signal caller. Such reserve backs as Fay WHSLE Bill Mason, Lem Cooke ana Art Franks, all Of whom had some play ing against Princeton, are improving greatly and are likely to be used IN the Penn and following games.

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: FOOTBALL RESULTS

    Imperial Valley press, October 25, 1936, page 1 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL RESULTS Fresh upsets marked nation al football encounters today. An inspired Pittsburgh eleven swamped Notre Dame &c to 0. Princeton beeat Navy to 0 while Michigan took Columbias measure 13 to 0. Harvard went down 1926 before Dart mouth and Colgate beat La fayette al TO 0. Missouri beat Iowa State 7 to 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)

Princeton 66% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Princeton leads 18–⁠12–⁠6 in 36 meetings, counting the 12 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

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