Fordham at Pittsburgh
Saturday, October 31, 1936 Share
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.
FinalAttendance 55,000
In the newspapers

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
- GOPHERS LOSE GRID THRONEPitt and Fordham battle to a scoreless tie
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.
The series
Every Fordham–Pittsburgh gameTied 2–2–3 in seven meetings, counting the five since this game.
| 1941 | Pittsburgh 13, Fordham 0 | |
| 1940 | Fordham 24, Pittsburgh 12 | |
| 1939 | Fordham 27, Pittsburgh 13 | |
| 1938 | Pittsburgh 24, Fordham 13 | |
| 1937 | Fordham 0, Pittsburgh 0 | |
| 1936 | Fordham 0, Pittsburgh 0 |
Around this game
Fordham
- Next gamevs. PurdueNov. 7, 1936
- SeasonFordham in 1936
- ProgramFordham history and records
Pittsburgh
- Next gamevs. Penn StateNov. 7, 1936
- SeasonPittsburgh in 1936
- ProgramPittsburgh history and records

