Pennsylvania at Princeton
Saturday, October 15, 1938 Share
Princeton beat Pennsylvania 13–0. It was their 34th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 31–3.
FinalHigh 75°F, low 57°F, 0.01 in. of rain
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, October 17, 1938, page 5 (results column)
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FOOT BAIL Ml REISSUE IFS nr The following are results Of prin- cipal football games played last Sat urday afternoon on the gridirons throughout the Nation: Washhl ton State 6; Southern California 19. Texas Christian S4; Texas A and M 6. Texas Tech. 1S- Montana 12. Gcn5aga 12; Idaho 26 U.CL.A. ‘: California 20. Brigham Young T; Utah 2, tie. Princeton 13; Penn. 0. Holy Cross 6; Carnegie Tech. T. Colgate F; Columbia 0. North Carolina ‘; N.Y.U. o. Purdue 6: Fordham 6, tie. Brown 13; dartmouth 34. Wash. Jeff. 0; Lafayette 27. Rochester 6; Amherst Al. Navy ‘; Yale 9. Army 20; Harvard IF. Connecticut 0; Maine 13. Williams 0; Bowdoln IA. Illinois 6; Notre Dame IA. Pittsburgh 26; Wisconsin 6. Indiana O: Nebraska o, tie. Cornell IT; Syracuse 19. Georgia Tech. 0; Duke 6. Mich. State 26; w. Virginia 0. Oklahoma 19; Kansas 0. Michigan G. Minnesota ‘. Iowa State 16 Missouri 13. Tennessee 13: Alabama o. Northwestern 0; Ohio State 0, tie Penn State 59; Lehigh 6. Centre 6; Villanova 35. Centenary o; Baylor IA Iowa 27; Chicago IA. Rice IT; Tulane 26. Texas 6; Arkansas 42. Remover 12; Indiana State 6. Mississippi T; Vanderbilt 13. Texas Tech 19; Montana 13. Washington 6; Oregon State l3. oregon 16; Stanford 27.

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 16, 1938, page 1 (results column)
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Macy, Penn, ‘Ba,na and Cornell Among Football Upset Victims The rapidly thinning ranks of the Nations undefeated football teams were whitfield further yes terday as such powers as Navy, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Cornell, Holy Cross and Columbia fell VIC Tins to increasingly formidable opposition. Yale surprised by defeating Navy, 8 to 7, while Army came from behind three times to beat Harvard, 20 to II. Pennsylvania was surprised by Princeton, l3 to 0, while Colgate throttled the SEN sational Sid Euckman to trim Co. lumbia, IL to 0. Tennessee trounced Alabama, 13 to 0. Cornell was toppled from the ranks Of the unbeaten as Syracuse scored all its points in the final period to win, 10 to IT, and Car negie Tech spilled Holy Cross, to 8. -. Pittsburgh’s lpower smothered
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 54% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Pennsylvania–Princeton gamePrinceton leads 63–31–1 in 95 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.
Around this game
Pennsylvania
- Next gamevs. ColumbiaOct. 22, 1938
- SeasonPennsylvania in 1938
- ProgramPennsylvania history and records
Princeton
- Next gamevs. NavyOct. 22, 1938
- SeasonPrinceton in 1938
- ProgramPrinceton history and records

