Penn State at Syracuse

Saturday, October 28, 1939

Penn State and Syracuse tied 6–⁠6. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Syracuse led the series 10–⁠4–⁠4.

AwayPenn State5–⁠1–⁠2 in 1939
6
HomeSyracuse3–⁠3–⁠2 in 1939
6

FinalHigh 65°F, low 40°F, 0.18 in. of rainAttendance 16,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, October 29, 1939, page 31 (results column)

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    inSon in the starring role, easily whipped Harvard, 1910; Prince ton ran over Brown. 26A12; Holy Cross buried Colgate, 27–⁠7, and Georgetown protected its unbeaten record with a TO decision over George Washington. Syracuse and Penn State played to 6–⁠6 draw as Army and Boston College scored over minor rivals. Lafayette finally found Its scoring punch and buried Gettysburg, 400. Rutgers took the first game of the Middle Three series from Lehigh, 20–⁠6, and Wesleyan stopped Amherst. 1914, in the opening game of the Little Three” championship. In the South, Louisiana State, Georgia Tech and Alabama all scored Southeastern Conference victories. Louisiana defeated Vanderbilt, 1875; Georgia Tech came from behind to top Auburn, 7–⁠6, and Alabama held on to defeat Mississippi State, 10. Florida whipped Maryland of the Southern Conference, 14–⁠0, while powerful Tennessee’s 18th consecutive victory was a routine ITO conquest Of Mercer. Dukes Blue Devils barely made the Southern Conference grade against little Wake Forest, win ming 60 on Yves McAfee’s second-period touchdown. WASH ington and Lee bowler over Virginia Tech, 60; Furman stopped Davidson, $50, and Rich mond topped Citadel, 1910, in other conference games. Nom conference Virginia trounced william and Mary. 26–⁠6.

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)

Syracuse 57% to win.

Penn State leads 43–⁠23–⁠5 in 71 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.

Recent meetings
2013Penn State 23, Syracuse 17
2009Penn State 28, Syracuse 7
2008Penn State 55, Syracuse 13
1990Penn State 27, Syracuse 21
1989Penn State 34, Syracuse 12
1988Syracuse 24, Penn State 10

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