Cornell at Pennsylvania

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 24, 1940, page 1

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  Cornell Passes Game Away To Penn 22–⁠2O PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23.-B- A cocky Cornell football team threw two ill-starred forward passes this afternoon and with them tossed away its claim to the Ivy league cham pionship. At the time the passes were thrown, the Ithacans were leading Penn by 1870, but as darkness blank eted Franklin field and the final whistle blew, Penn was the winner by 22–⁠20 in a thriller the equal of any these ancient gridiron rivals ever have staged. 1t was a grand triumph for Penn beaten only by Michigan this year and a grand finale for the Red and Blues fine heavy duty back, Francis Aavier Reagan, performing before a capacity crowd Of 1895, Reagan scored all htree touchdowns, held the ball for Gene Davis, field goal and extra point, and set a new Pennsv1vanla one year scoring record of 1O2 points. Though the margin was close Penn amply deserved to win and Cor. nell just as definitely deserved to lose. The Ithacans went 80 wards and 20 yards to two quick touch downs before the first quarter was more than half over, but then suddenly had a rush of over-confidence to the head.

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  The Tacoma times, Tacoma, Wash., November 25, 1940, page 1

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  penn HANDS CORNELL SPECTACULAR Defeat! Touchdown in Final Period Spells Finish Before Crowd Of $1,000 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES pushed across touch down the last period today defeat Cornell % n 20 The last game of the year for both teams drew 10000 snectafors into Franklin field

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.

Pennsylvania leads 65–⁠40–⁠5 in 110 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.