Cornell at Pennsylvania

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  Evening star, November 26, 1939, page 29

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  Aerial Bombardment by Princeton Sinks Navy for 28O Loss loire Dame Beaten by 7roan 202 Epic Display of Fighting Spirit Ponderous Cornell Buries Penn Under 26–⁠0 Score to Wind Up Season Unbeoten, United ing dive that blocked a Reagan punt on the Penn Is and Hershey followed the bounding ball into the end zone and fell on it for the Sec ond score. Midway Of the second quarter Cornell came on again, 40 yards this time in nine plays. Two COM pleted Mccullough passes helped make it first down on the l6 and from there the star halfback whipped off Penn’s left tackle, cut back slightly and fought his way through three Penn men for the last yards to pay dirt. With good extra point kicks after the first two touchdowns making it 200, from the way Cornell played IN the third quarter the Ithacans seemed to consider that enough. Passes Get Last Score. There was a tWo-sided exhibition OF poor punting throughout the period until at the start of the last quarter sub-Fullback Kenny Brown returned Penn punt to the Red and Blue “A. Two passes by little Walt Scholl ate up 81 of the intervening yards, and on the last play School started on dead run to his right and then tipped a pass which 6-foot, Pinch Hershey hauled down In the end zone behind the Penn defender. Penn never could get started. The Quakers completed only two out OF 20 passes to Cornell’s 10 in 20 tries. made SIS yards rushing to Cor nelrs l65 and got only two first downs to the Ithacans’ 13. For once the Statistics didn’t lie

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Pennsylvania leads 65–⁠40–⁠5 in 110 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.