Navy at Pennsylvania
Saturday, November 7, 1942 Share
Navy beat No. 9 Pennsylvania 7–0. It was their 27th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 14–11–2.
FinalHigh 59°F, low 44°F
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Navy–Pennsylvania gamePennsylvania leads 22–21–4 in 47 meetings, counting the 20 since this game.
| 1987 | Navy 38, Pennsylvania 28 | |
| 1986 | Pennsylvania 30, Navy 26 | |
| 1960 | Navy 27, Pennsylvania 0 | |
| 1959 | Navy 22, Pennsylvania 22 | |
| 1958 | Navy 50, Pennsylvania 8 | |
| 1957 | Navy 35, Pennsylvania 7 |
Around this game
Navy
- Next gamevs. ColumbiaNov. 14, 1942
- SeasonNavy in 1942
- ProgramNavy history and records
Pennsylvania
- Next gamevs. Penn StateNov. 14, 1942
- SeasonPennsylvania in 1942
- ProgramPennsylvania history and records

