Cornell at Pennsylvania

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  The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., November 26, 1943, page 8

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  Wildcats Down Wilson Cyclones, 21-l4 PENN TRIUMPHS OVER CORNELL Largest Holiday Crowd See Traditional Rivals Battle PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25-(R,- For a time today it looked as thought Bob Odell and Joe Kane, Pennsylvania’s star halfbacks, would finish their football career as goats against PENIS traditional foe, Cornell. With a crowd of $4,000 watching. in warm November sunshine, undergod Cornell capitalized on two fumbles by Odell and missed tao kle and a pass interference by Kane to hold a 1916 halftime lead in the 5Oth renewal Of their famed Thanksgiving day classic. But in the second half, Odel] and Kane ripped through Cornell’s logged resistance to set up two touchdowns and a 20 to IA Penn triumph. Penn was going nowhere fast until the middle of the third quarter when Odell caught two passes from Joe Michaels that developed off apparent running plays. This moved the ball to the Cornell q and inspired a Penn team thai seemed headed for a third straight defeat. From the % the Quakers smash ed to the Big Red seven before losing possession when john, Small, 16-year-old fullback, had t. leave the field temporarily for { new pair of pants. Penn got the bali on the Cornell IA when Wal Stickel partly blocked Charlie, Weiss punt. In three cracks Of tackle, Odell plunged to the sew en-. Small rushed back into the game and with Odell running in reference smacked over from the one after making first down on the three. Penn still trailed by one poin at 14–⁠13 and the red and blue cause seemed hopeless when they were penalized to their one early in the last quarter. But Kane made { great catch of Michaels’ pass from behind the goal line for 80 yard. and Michaels punted to the BIZ Red A. | A holding penalty showed Cor nell back to the % when Franz Accorsi made Cornell’s one tumble Of the game, Walt Dubien fell OF it on the 26 for Penn Kane, APP parently trapped for a loss on a, end run, stiff-armed three oppon ents and ran to the 10. Small crack ed the line three times to the three and Michaels romped off tackle for the winning touchdown. Kane’s run enabled him to Sc a new Penn record of GIL yards by rushing for one season, shat tering Frank Reagan’s previous mark of $40 yards during the 1910 campaign.

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 27, 1943, page 1

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  Painless Wonder Helps SMUe Penn PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 20 Penn holds 20–⁠14 victory over Cornell in their annual football clash, but only because of a fine comeback in the second half. The favored Quakers, after trailing throughout the first half. scored a touchdown in each of the las two periods to pull the game out of the fire. An 1S-year-old freshman from Philadelphia, John Small, who provided the crowd of 10000 a humorous moment when his pants were torn down in a scrimmage, stood out In PENIS triumph. Smalrs battering rushes. along with those of Bob 0deii, who redeemed himself for earlier misplays, helped the Red and Blue turn the tide in the second half after Cornell had led lac at half time. Small scored the touchdown which brought Penn close in. the third period, and Joe Michaels. forward passing star dashed over with the winning tally in the final period. Aided by Odell’s tumble in the first period, Howard Blose finally scored for Cornell on dash around end from the q. Penn pulled 10 within one point Of

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  Imperial Valley press, California, November 26, 1943, page 6 (results column)

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  FAyORITES WIN THURSDAY TlLTS NEW YORK. Nov. 26 CUrJ-The slimmest Thanksgiving Day foot ball schedule in years followed form yesterday with The faVorite5 VIM ming in all but isolated cases. The casts big Turkey Day contest pittcd Penn against Cornell at Franklin field in Philadelphia with favored Penn coming from behind in the last quarter to close its season with a 20–⁠14 victory over a stubborn Big Red eleven. Halfback Joc MichaelS tailed the deciding touchdown when Penn recovered a Cornell tumble deep in Big Red territory BuckneSS provided the days big gest upset defeating Franklin and Marshall, previously unbeaten, 81 13. Victorious in eight games prior to yesterdays, including one vic tory over BuckneSs, F. & M, had figured strongly as a possible can didatc for a bowl bid. In the only other eastern contest. Colgate defeated Brown, 21-H in their annual grudgc battle played n the n.crn.ng. The SoCth’S biggest game was TIC clash between Texas ana Texas AIM, with Texas handing the AgeicS their first defeat, 27-l3. ARM however accepted an Orange Bowl bid Immediately after the contest and will meet ISU in the 10Th an nual southern post season game. Tulsa, still undclcated and look ing for its third straight bowl bid. tromced Arkansas CLIO, Vanderbilt defeated Tennessee Tech, 45–⁠7 Maryland triumphCd over VMI, 81 ID, South Carolina beat Wake Forest, 1872 in a mild upset, Camp Davis trounccd Fort Bragg, 42–⁠0. TuSkegec beat Alabama State Teachers, 1913, Morris Brown scored 1876 victory over Clark, Rich mond defeated the Charleston Coast Guard, 2O-6 and North Carolina pre-Flight dumped North Carolina State, PIT. In the midwest the Fort Riley Centaurs defeated Kansas 22–⁠7 and Miami University of Ohio trolmced Xavier 52–⁠7. In Rocky Mountain games, Okla homa AIM beat Denver 7–⁠6 in the snow and Utah remained without a victory this season, losing to ST. Mary’s $40.

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 60 since this game.