Bucknell at Cornell
Saturday, September 29, 1945 Share
Cornell beat Bucknell 19–8. It was their 21st meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 20–1.
FinalHigh 83°F, low 52°F, 0.01 in. of rain
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 1, 1945, page 3 (results column)
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FOOTBALL SCORES Following are the final scores of leading football games played last Saturday: East Navy, 49; Villanova, O. Army, 32; AAF Personnel Dis tribution Command, 0. Colgate, 48; Rochester, 0. Cornell, 19; Bucknell, 8. Yale, 27; Tufts, T. Penn State, AT; Muhlenberg, T. Boston College, l3; Squantum Navy, 0. Holy Cross, 13: Dartmouth, 6. Pennsylvania, 30; Brown, Q. Connecticut, 46; Worcester, 0. Franklin & Marshall, T. Swarth- more; ‘ (tie) Columbia, 40; Lafayette, IA. Midwest Indiana, 2; Northwestern, ‘ ttie). Michigan, 40; Michigan State, 0. Ohio State, AT; Missouri, 6. Purdue, 20; Great Lakes, 6. Oklahoma, 20; Nebraska, o. Wisconsin, 40j Marquette, 13. Iowa, IA; Bergstrom Field, l3. Notre Dame, ‘; Illinois, 0. Oberlin, 34; Denison, IA. Muskingum, 0; Otterbein, 0 ttie). :. Bowling Green, 6; Ohio Univer- sity, 0. Kansas, 20; Denver, l9 South Georgia Tech, 20; North Carolina, A. Georgia, 20 Clemson, 0. Duke, 76; Bogue Field, 0. Southwest Texas Christian, T; Baylor, 6. Mississippi State, 31 South West Louisiana Institute, 0. South Carolina, 40; Presbyterian, O. Virginia, 2S; North Carolina State, 6. Tennessee, 2; Wake Forest, 6. Vanderbilt, 12; Tennessee Poly, O. Southwest Oklahoma A & M, 19; Arkansas, IA. Texas, 46; Southwestern, O. Midwest Iowa State, AS; Iowa State Teachers, 13. West Colorado, IS; Colorado College, 0. Nevada, 33; Utah, IS. Southern California, l3; Cali fornia, 2. Washington, 20; Oregon, 6. Washington State, 43; Idaho, l2. UCLA, 20: San Diego Navy, IA. Oregon State, IA; Camp Beale, l4 (tie).
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)
Bucknell 60% to win. Cornell won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Bucknell–Cornell gameCornell leads 39–10 in 49 meetings, counting the 28 since this game.
| 2025 | Cornell 30, Bucknell 20 | |
| 2024 | Cornell 34, Bucknell 21 | |
| 2023 | Bucknell 21, Cornell 13 | |
| 2021 | Bucknell 21, Cornell 10 | |
| 2017 | Bucknell 26, Cornell 18 | |
| 2016 | Cornell 24, Bucknell 16 |
Around this game
Bucknell
- Next gameat PittsburghOct. 6, 1945
- SeasonBucknell in 1945
- ProgramBucknell history and records
Cornell
- Next gamevs. New London Submarine BaseOct. 6, 1945
- SeasonCornell in 1945
- ProgramCornell history and records

