Navy at Princeton
Saturday, October 22, 1938 Share
Navy and Princeton tied 13–13. It was their 26th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 14–6–6.
FinalHigh 67°F, low 39°F
In the newspapers
Imperial Valley press, California, October 23, 1938, page 1 (results column)
Read the text
FOOTBALL SCORES Navy 13. Princeton 13. Harvard Z, Dartmouth 13. Fafayette 7. N. Y. u. g. Holy Cross 20, Georgia 6, Pittsburgh “a, Southern Metho. list 7. Fordham 20, Oregon 0. Pennsylvania IA, Columbia 13. Chic State AZ, Chicago 7. Michigan State 10, Syracuse II. Yale l3, Michigan Is. Army 40, Boston U, 0. Notre Dame 7, Carnegie Tech 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.
On the newsreel
- NAVY GRIDDERS TIE PRINCETON40,000 football fans see the Annapolis Middies swamp the Nassau “Tigers” for three periods and then get clawed in the fourth by a dramatic touchdown surge that evens the colorful grid contest. Final score, 13-13
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)
Princeton 53% to win.
The series
Every Navy–Princeton gamePrinceton leads 18–12–6 in 36 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.
| 1984 | Navy 41, Princeton 3 | |
| 1983 | Navy 37, Princeton 29 | |
| 1953 | Navy 65, Princeton 7 | |
| 1951 | Princeton 24, Navy 20 | |
| 1950 | Princeton 20, Navy 14 | |
| 1949 | Navy 28, Princeton 7 |
Around this game
Navy
- Next gameat PennsylvaniaOct. 29, 1938
- SeasonNavy in 1938
- ProgramNavy history and records
Princeton
- Next gameat HarvardOct. 29, 1938
- SeasonPrinceton in 1938
- ProgramPrinceton history and records