Cornell at Pennsylvania

Thursday, November 28, 1946

No. 14 Pennsylvania beat Cornell 26–⁠20. It was their 53rd meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 38–⁠12–⁠3.

AwayCornell5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1946
20
Home14Pennsylvania6–⁠2 in 1946
26

FinalHigh 61°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: TRIUMPHS OVER CORNELL Big Red Steals Show, Blu, Loses The. Game, 26 To 20

    The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 29, 1946, page 1

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    TRIUMPHS OVER CORNELL Big Red Steals Show, Blu, Loses The. Game, 26 To 20 PHILADELPHIA, Nov. D. R, Cornell lost the game, 26 to 20, but stole the show from Pennsylvania Thursday in the 53rd renewal of their traditional Thanks giving Day football classic. Behind by a 26 to Z score start ing the last quarter, the big Red team from Ithaca, playing its last game under Coach Ed McKeever, scored twice on A-yard forward passes and twice missed getting the tying touchdown when Penn held for downs. both times on the three-yard line. Cornell gave a hint of what was in store when Walt Kretz broke loose for an 83-yard touchdown run the first time the Big Red got the ball, but most of the sellout crowd Of $4,000 forgot about it as Penn rallied to tally four touchdoWns and completely outplay the New Workers.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: Sport Briefs

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 29, 1946, page 2 (results column)

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    Sport Briefs Thanks to halfback Ivan Allain Fresno State College holds one point football victory over Univer- sity of Idaho. For it was Allair who place kicked the extra point af- ter the final touchdown in yester- days game at Fresno to give the Bulldogs a 13 to 12 win. The WampuS football team oi Southern Oregon College of Educa- tion has wound up perfect season The Wampus squad, so-called be- cause it practices on a sloping field that makes it run T-formation on the bias, defeated Central Washing ton College of Education, 13 to 8 at Ashland. The victory gave the Southern Oregon team eight victories against no losses. And it gave the Ashland squad the mythical Pacific Northwest Teachers College title. III OlllCl NOiAC5I NOiibNtNo NteJ Willamette beat Whitman ‘ to 0. Colgate nipped Brown 20 to IA. Tex as stampeded Texas ARM 24 to ‘. Pennsylvania beat Cornell 26 to 20. Tulsa kept it’s bowl hopes alive by shading Arkansas IA to 13 Kan sas upset Missouri 20 to 19 to gain a share of the Big Six title with Oklahoma. William and Mary beat 40 to 0. Make Forest trounced South Carolina 35 to O.. downed VMI 20 to T David son took Furman 13 to ‘. In the Big Seven, Utah State de- feated Utah g to IA, and Colorado shut out Colorado ARM 18 to 0. Den yer tramped Colorado College 28 to to in an outside game Other scores of note were Wichita 34, Arizona State 19; St. Louis 36, Bradle Tech 29 Cincinnati 13, Miami of Ohio ‘; Chattanooga 34 Rollins 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)

Pennsylvania 82% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Pennsylvania leads 65–⁠40–⁠5 in 110 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Cornell 39, Pennsylvania 17
2024Pennsylvania 67, Cornell 49
2023Pennsylvania 23, Cornell 8
2022Pennsylvania 28, Cornell 21
2021Cornell 15, Pennsylvania 12
2019Pennsylvania 21, Cornell 20

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