Maryland at Rutgers

Saturday, October 21, 1939

Rutgers beat Maryland 25–⁠12. It was their fourth meeting; after it, the series stood even at 2–⁠2.

AwayMaryland2–⁠7 in 1939
12
HomeRutgers1–⁠1–⁠1 in 1939
25

FinalHigh 78°F, low 44°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, October 22, 1939, page 28 (results column)

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    2l-0. in intersectional games but Auburn, of the Southeastern group, dropped a surprising TO decision to Manhattan; North Carolina State was beaten by Detroit, 21–⁠6. and Maryland bowed to Rutgers. 25–⁠12. Round ing out the intersectional program, Nebraska ran up a decisive 900 count on Baylor and Southern Methodist held Mar quette without a first down in punching out 1910 triumph. Cornell continued to impress in the East. rolling up a 47–⁠0 count on Penn State as favorites other wise performed about as expect ed. Army gave another disappointing exhibition, bowling to Yale 20-l5 as the Cadets running attack begged pitifully. Harlan Gustafson caught two touchdown passes as Penn routed Harvard, 22–⁠7, and Dave Allerdice’s passing skill carried Princeton to a l4–⁠7 verdict over Columbia. Holy Cross stopped Brown easily, 300, and Dartmouth topped Lafayette, 40. Boston Colleges 1870 rout of Temple caused some eyebrow raising. Indiana scored its second Big

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)

Maryland 65% to win. Rutgers pulled the upset.

Maryland leads 12–⁠10 in 22 meetings, counting the 18 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Rutgers 37, Maryland 30
2025Rutgers 35, Maryland 20
2024Rutgers 31, Maryland 17
2023Maryland 42, Rutgers 24
2022Maryland 37, Rutgers 0
2021Maryland 40, Rutgers 16

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