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Brown at Princeton

Saturday, October 5, 1946

Princeton beat Brown 33–⁠12. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 9–⁠4.

AwayBrown3–⁠5–⁠1 in 1946
12
HomePrinceton3–⁠5 in 1946
33

FinalHigh 80°F, low 44°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL d SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 7, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL d SCORES Scores of. leading football games played last Saturday afternoon are as follows; UCLA 39; Washington 13. Oregon IA; California l3. Washington State 32, Idaho 0. Ohio State 21; use O. Stanford 33; San Francisco ‘. Oregon State 35; Portland 0. Nevada 33; Santa Clara ‘. Calf. Poly 2l; San Diego State l3. Willamette 26; Brit. Columbia 13. Cen. Washington 2l; Whitworth 2 Columbia 23; Navy IA. Dartmouth 20; Syracuse IA Pennsylvania 66; Lafayette 0. Army 46; Cornell 21. Yale 27; Colgate 6. Princeton 33; Brown 12. Harvard 49; Tufts 0. Holy Cross l6; Detroit IA. Penn State AS; Bucknell 6. Boston College 34; Michigan s 20. Indiana 21 Minnesota 10. Northwestern 28; Wisconsin 0. Notre Dame 33 Pittsburgh 0. Nebraska 31; Kansas State 0. Kansas IA; Wichita T. Illinois 43; Purdue ‘.

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)

Brown 53% to win. Princeton won as Elo’s underdog.

The series

Every Brown–Princeton game

Princeton leads 49–⁠22 in 71 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Princeton 16, Brown 10
2025Princeton 40, Brown 21
2024Princeton 29, Brown 17
2023Brown 28, Princeton 27
2022Princeton 35, Brown 19
2021Princeton 56, Brown 42

Around this game

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