Princeton at Pennsylvania

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  Evening star, October 20, 1940, page 28

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  WeIter of Confusion Cleared By Stotisticions, One Learns Penn Beat Princeton, 1913 sonal total of 81 points, eQualing Walt Sculls all-time Penn record. Reagan also threw a touchdown pass in a play that covered 81 yards, kicked punts that seemed to come out of cannon and carried the ball 18 times for a net gain of 200 yards. Allerdice Master Passer. No. 2-David w. Allerdice, jr., of indianapolis, threw 81 of Prince tons 40 passes and completed % of Princeton’s Is for almost all of the $50 yards the Tigers. gained through the air. Three of his pitches went for touchdowns and a total gain of 102 yards, while another that set up one of these scores was good for 81 yards. No. 3-Penn’s running plays, featuring spinners and reverses. rolled for 800 yards. Princeton’s running plays, featuring virtually nothing, were thrown for net loss of Is yards-but the Tigers got their first touchdown on a 98-yard dash by Bob jackson, 9.7-second sprinter, who picked Reagan tumble out of the air on his 2-yard line and lost nothing except a piece of his shirt on his long voyage home. No. +There was scoring in every period naturally. It was TT at the end of the first. 20–⁠14 at the end of the second, 1922 at the end of the third, in which Reagan went over twice and passed to John butcher the other time, while there was one touchdown apiece In the final quarter, in which Reagan made his longest scoring run, a yards on a beautiful bit Of field-reversing after turning the Tiger left end. Penn Makes Long Marches. No. 5-Penn stuck to its system Of defending against passes by try ing for interceptions, and made good seven times. But on one of those seven the Penn man, catching the ball on the goal line. was tossed back into the end zone for . safety and two Princeton points. No. 6-In the third quarter Penn went 90. 81 and 68 yards to It’s scores In . total Of 10 plays. The Princeton touchdown In this period required only one play. an Allerdice (oee PENN, Pase B-oJ

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  The Tacoma times, Tacoma, Wash., October 21, 1940, page 1

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  The Crimson And Army Play Tie Penn and Princeton Play Wild. 1913. Football Come COLUMBUS. o. - Mime sofa STAYED off = last-mlnute drive and defeated Ohio state n 10 7 before a crowd OF 6s. 100 In Ohio stadium today. Most Of the game was played In the rain.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1940, page 5 (results column)

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  Hi|NY5.iIJ Scores The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon Oregon State o: University of Washington 19. Stanford 26; Washington State IA. U.C.LA. T; California g. Oregon 0; University of Southern California 13. Duke 13; Colgate O. Princeton 28; Pennsylvania 46. Maryland o; Florida l9. Vanderbilt 0; Georgia Tech 19. Nebraska 53; Kansas g. Idaho o; Boston College 60. Iowa 6; Indiana 10. Carnegie Tech O; Notre Dame 61 Iowa State IA Missouri 30. Rice 6; Tulane 15. Northwestern 27; Wisconsin T. Tennessee 27; Alabama 12. Texas 2l; Arkansas O. Illinois 0; Michigan 28. Drake 0; Navy 19. Georgia IS; Columbia 19. Syracuse 6; Cornell 33 Holy Cross 13; NY.U. 2. Fordham 24; Pittsburgh 12. Dartmouth ‘; Yale 13 Army 6; Harvard 6, tie. Penn State 34; Lehigh 0. Connecticut 13; Maine G. Minnesota 13; Ohio State T.

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Princeton leads 63–⁠31–⁠1 in 95 meetings, counting the 60 since this game.