Fordham at Pittsburgh

Saturday, October 31, 1936

No. 5 Fordham and No. 2 Pittsburgh tied 0–⁠0. It was their second meeting; after it, the series stood even at 0–⁠0–⁠2.

Away5Fordham5–⁠1–⁠2 in 1936
0
Home2Pittsburgh8–⁠1–⁠1 in 1936
0

FinalAttendance 55,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: EOOT BALL As1REsULTs

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 2, 1936, page 5 (results column)

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    EOOT BALL As1REsULTs The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Washington T. Oregon 0. Idaho IS; Gonzaga ‘. Washington State IA, California 13. Montana ‘; Oregon State A. Stanford 19; UCLA 6. Brigham Young 0; Utah Is. Louisiana 19; Vanderbilt 0. Louisiana Tech 13; Tulane g. Holy Cross O; Temple 3. Navy 6; Penn 16 Illinois 9; Michigan G. Syracuse 0; Penn State IS. Colgate IA Army 2. Duke 51 Washington Lee 0. Dartmouth II; Yale T. Cornell l3; Columbia 20. Villa Nova 0; Bucknell 6. Purdue T. Carnegie Tech 6. Rutgers 0; Lehigh 19. Alabama Poly 0; Santa Clara 12. Iowa 6; Indiana 13. Missouri 0; Nebraska 20. Alabama IA; Kentucky 0. Chicago T; Wisconsin 6. Ohio State 3; Notre Dame T. Southern Methodist IA; Texas T. Baylor 0; Texas Christian 23. | George Washington 6; Rice 12. Clemson IA Georgie Tech 13. Tennessee 46; Georgia 0. Princeton 14; Harvard IA. Minnesota 0; Northwestern 6. Pitt 0; Fordham 0. SUNDAY GAME University of Portland 0; Uni versity of San Francisco 19.

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

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Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Pittsburgh 69% to win.

Tied 2–⁠2–⁠3 in seven meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
1941Pittsburgh 13, Fordham 0
1940Fordham 24, Pittsburgh 12
1939Fordham 27, Pittsburgh 13
1938Pittsburgh 24, Fordham 13
1937Fordham 0, Pittsburgh 0
1936Fordham 0, Pittsburgh 0

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