Navy at Pennsylvania

Saturday, November 7, 1942

Navy beat No. 9 Pennsylvania 7–⁠0. It was their 27th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 14–⁠11–⁠2.

AwayNavy5–⁠4 in 1942
7
Home9Pennsylvania5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1942
0

FinalHigh 59°F, low 44°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: Navy Beais Penn Eleven By7-0 Score

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 9, 1942, page 5

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    Navy Beais Penn Eleven By7–⁠0 Score PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Nov g. The Navy, last Saturday afternoon, astonished 74,000 football fans by defeating the highly favored Penn, which forever was menace but never could quite make good The Navy’s touchdown resulted from 59-yard march in the first quarter and was climaxed by H. yard pass, H. A. Hamberg 10 Ben Martin, who took the ball in the end zone for the touchdown. The score was Navy T, Penn 0.

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)

Pennsylvania 72% to win. Navy pulled the upset.

Pennsylvania leads 22–⁠21–⁠4 in 47 meetings, counting the 20 since this game.

Recent meetings
1987Navy 38, Pennsylvania 28
1986Pennsylvania 30, Navy 26
1960Navy 27, Pennsylvania 0
1959Navy 22, Pennsylvania 22
1958Navy 50, Pennsylvania 8
1957Navy 35, Pennsylvania 7

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