Duke at Pennsylvania
Saturday, September 30, 1944 Share
Pennsylvania beat Duke 18–7. It was their first meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 1–0.
Final0.02 in. of rain
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 2, 1944, page 4
Read the text
SURPRISES AND Up5ET5 ON GRiDIR0N If a centipede had crawled across a map of the United States on Saturday everyone of its hundred legs would have touched a point where a football surprise took place and upsets were as numerous as ants at Firemen’s picnic. North Carolina Pre-flight stunned the Navy, 21–14. Pennsylvania, scoring in the first IS seconds, spilled Duke, 18–7. Wisconsin tripped Northwestern, 7–6.
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)
Duke 55% to win. Pennsylvania won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Duke–Pennsylvania gameTied 1–1 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1954 | Duke 52, Pennsylvania 0 | |
| 1944 | Pennsylvania 18, Duke 7 |
Around this game
Duke
- Next gamevs. North Carolina Pre-FlightOct. 7, 1944
- SeasonDuke in 1944
- ProgramDuke history and records
Pennsylvania
- Next gamevs. DartmouthOct. 7, 1944
- SeasonPennsylvania in 1944
- ProgramPennsylvania history and records

