Dartmouth at Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 12, 1946

No. 7 Pennsylvania beat Dartmouth 39–⁠6. It was their 17th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 9–⁠6–⁠2.

AwayDartmouth3–⁠6 in 1946
6
Home7Pennsylvania6–⁠2 in 1946
39

FinalHigh 72°F, low 64°F, 0.19 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Minisi Shines as Penn Downs Dartmouth In 39-6 TussIe

    Evening star, October 13, 1946, page 36

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    Minisi Shines as Penn Downs Dartmouth In 39–⁠6 TussIe PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12.-Tony Minisi, who finds Franklin Field his favorite prancing grounds whether playing for or against the University Of Pennsylvania, reeled on three touchdowns and passed for another today as the undefeated Penns butchered Dartmouth University, 500, before gathering Of $1,000. It was Minisi who led Navy to q last minute victory over the Red and Blue last year. It was that same Minisi who streaked 81 yards with q Dartmouth punt three min utes after the opening kickoff to set on the Penn touchdown parade. Later in the first stanza, he arched q 19-yard aerial to Frank Jenkins from 10 yards out. Minisis blazing feet churned for So yards in the second period and SO In the third. In all, the Red and Blue wing back rolled up 127 yards on four Of fensive thrusts plus 81 yards on two punt returns, making his over all average 311a yards per try. Dartmouth did spoil Penn’s game to q slight degree, crossing the Quakers’ goal line for the first time this year. the tally coming in the second quarter on q pass from 155pound Conrad Pensavalle to End Bob Poet. Poet leaped into the air between defenders to catch the a. uord f1iu

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

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 14, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL . SCORES Scores of leading football games played Saturday are as follows: U. Washington 21; Washington State T. oregon State G; Southern Cali fornia 0. Oregon 34; Montana 0. Cincinnati 19 Dayton 0. Missouri 26: Kansas State 0. Florida 0; Vanderbilt 20, Colorado 20; Wyoming 0. Texas 20 Oklahoma l3. UCLA 26; Stanford 6. California 20; St. Mary’s IS. Notre Dame 49 Purdue 6. Rutgers 26; NYU 0. Harvard 3; Princeton 12. Penn 39; Dartmouth 6. Temple 0; Pitt ttie). Colgate g; Cornell IS. Chattanooga T; Tennessee AT. New Hampshire 27; Maine 0. Mississippi State 6; Michigan State O. Washington and Lee 0; West vir- ginia 6. Muhlenberg 6; Bucknell 0. Duke 21; Navy G. Army 20; Michigan 13. Columbia 28, Yale 20. Oklahoma City Univ. 46; Fresno State ‘. Tulsa 21; Texas Tech G. Louisiana State 33; Texas Ag- gies g. Marquette 46; Idaho 6. College of Puget Sound 33: Pac- fife University 0. Penn State 9; Syracuse 0. Utah 35; Brigham Young 6. Colorado State 12 Western (Col- orado) State 6. Arizona 27; Texas Mines l3. West Texas State 13; Colorado College 12. Occidental College ‘; California State Poly (tie). SUNDAY GAMES Detroit IS; San Francisco 6. Santa Clara 6; Portland 0. Corpus Christi NATE 27; Iowa Preflight O.

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.

On the newsreel

  • PENN ROUTS DARTMOUTHMinisi scores three touchdowns for the Quakers as 69,000 watch one-sided contest which Penn wins by a score of 39-6Universal Newsreel, October 14, 1946. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Pennsylvania 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 36–⁠34–⁠2 in 72 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Dartmouth 14, Pennsylvania 10
2025Pennsylvania 36, Dartmouth 24
2024Dartmouth 20, Pennsylvania 17
2023Dartmouth 23, Pennsylvania 20
2022Pennsylvania 23, Dartmouth 17
2021Dartmouth 31, Pennsylvania 7

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