Pennsylvania at Yale
Saturday, October 14, 1939 Share
Pennsylvania beat Yale 6–0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 16–3.
FinalHigh 63°F, low 42°FAttendance 32,500
In the newspapers

The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 16, 1939, page 1 (results column)
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Football Scores Oct. IA Duke Thirteen-Pitt 14 Cornell 20-Princeton 2 Penn 6-Yale 0 Army 6-Columbia 6 Tie Dartmouth 0-Navy 0 Tie Northwestern 0-Ohio State 13 Texas Christian 1l-Temple 13 Fordham 0-Tulane 2 Nebraska 10-IoWa State 2 Purdue 13-Minesota 13 Tie Southern Methodist 19-- Notre Dame 20 Harvard 61-Chicago 0 Oregon 6-California0 Washington 0-Wash. State 6 UCLA 14-Stanford IA Tie Oregon State 14-U of Portland 12 Illinois 0-Southern Cal 26
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)
Yale 55% to win. Pennsylvania won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Pennsylvania–Yale gameYale leads 45–24–1 in 70 meetings, counting the 51 since this game.
| 2025 | Yale 35, Pennsylvania 13 | |
| 2024 | Yale 31, Pennsylvania 10 | |
| 2023 | Pennsylvania 27, Yale 17 | |
| 2022 | Pennsylvania 20, Yale 13 | |
| 2021 | Yale 42, Pennsylvania 28 | |
| 2019 | Yale 46, Pennsylvania 41 |
Around this game
Pennsylvania
- Next gameat HarvardOct. 21, 1939
- SeasonPennsylvania in 1939
- ProgramPennsylvania history and records
Yale
- Next gamevs. ArmyOct. 21, 1939
- SeasonYale in 1939
- ProgramYale history and records

