Cornell at Princeton
Saturday, October 25, 1947 Share
Cornell beat Princeton 28–21. It was their 31st meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 19–11–1.
FinalHigh 67°F, low 28°F
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 27, 1947, page 3 (results column)
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FOOTBALL q SCORES Final scores of leading football games played during the week end are as follows: Montana State Is: Washington State 12 Stanford c; Washington %. Portland c; oregon State 46. San Francisco T; oregon 34. Southern Methodist T; UCLA 0 use 39; California IA. U of Nevada 2l; Tulane 13. Montana State 34; Idaho State College 22 Utah State 12; Brig Young 27 Utah 26; Wyoming T. Texas Tech. 36; Denver ‘. Arkansas 19 Mississippi IA Arizona State ‘, Wichita U. 55 Vermont 6; New Hampshire 28. Geneva 40; Carnegie Tech 12 w Virginia 8; Penn State 21 Dartmouth IA; Havard 13. Duke 13; Wake Forest 6. Temple 21; Bueknell 0. Alabama IT; Georfie T. Citadel 0; Georgia Tech 38. Iowa 0: Notre Dame 2l. Nebraska IA; Kansas State ‘. Marquette 12; Wisconsin 35 Missouri 26; Iowa State T. Illinois T. Purdue IA. Indiana 6; Northwestern ‘. Xavier 25; Cincinnati 27. Davidson 0; Washington Lee 32 Fordham 12; Kings Point 0. Holy Cross 26; Syracuse O. Kentucky T; Michigan State 6. Cornell 28; Princeton 21. Ohio State 0; Pitt l2. Minnesota 6; Michigan 13. Navy Q; Penn 2l. Brown 13; Colgate B (tie). Springfield 0; Yale 49. North Texas State 27, Sam Hous- ton 0. Whitman T; Univ. British Colum- bia G. William and Mary AT; Boston University 13.~ Vanderbilt 13; Louisiana s. 19 New Mexico 12; Arizona p.
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)
Princeton 59% to win. Cornell won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Cornell–Princeton gamePrinceton leads 54–30–2 in 86 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.
| 2025 | Cornell 20, Princeton 17 | |
| 2024 | Cornell 49, Princeton 35 | |
| 2023 | Princeton 14, Cornell 3 | |
| 2022 | Princeton 35, Cornell 9 | |
| 2021 | Princeton 34, Cornell 16 | |
| 2019 | Princeton 21, Cornell 7 |
Around this game
Cornell
- Next gamevs. ColumbiaNov. 1, 1947
- SeasonCornell in 1947
- ProgramCornell history and records
Princeton
- Next gamevs. PennsylvaniaNov. 1, 1947
- SeasonPrinceton in 1947
- ProgramPrinceton history and records

