Pennsylvania at Yale

Saturday, October 14, 1939

Pennsylvania beat Yale 6–⁠0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 16–⁠3.

AwayPennsylvania4–⁠4 in 1939
6
HomeYale3–⁠4–⁠1 in 1939
0

FinalHigh 63°F, low 42°FAttendance 32,500

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    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.

Yale leads 45–⁠24–⁠1 in 70 meetings, counting the 51 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Yale 35, Pennsylvania 13
2024Yale 31, Pennsylvania 10
2023Pennsylvania 27, Yale 17
2022Pennsylvania 20, Yale 13
2021Yale 42, Pennsylvania 28
2019Yale 46, Pennsylvania 41

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