Navy at Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 23, 1948

No. 7 Pennsylvania beat Navy 20–⁠14. It was their 33rd meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 17–⁠14–⁠2.

AwayNavy0–⁠8–⁠1 in 1948
14
Home7Pennsylvania5–⁠3 in 1948
20

FinalHigh 59°F, low 46°F, 0.08 in. of rainAttendance 75,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: | |Middies' Attack To Be BoIstered

    Evening star, October 26, 1948, page 15

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    | |Middies’ Attack To Be BoIstered ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 26.-Navy footballers are charting “a few new running plays” for use when the midshipmen sail into Notre Dame Saturday in Baltimore. Coach George Sauer said the plays are to be launched during the week against the plebes and junior varsity. Although Sauer said his squad is improving by the week, he noted that “the opposition gets tougher” After the clash with the Irish Navy meets Michigan, Columbia anc then Army. Sauer was gratified with the showing his boys made against Penn last Saturday in spite of the fact that the Middies were on the short end of a 20–⁠14 score. They played a good, all around game” with plenty of fire, drive and fight” he said.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: &1AsAikg8 5 ga Agiklg8@6 FOOTBALL { SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 25, 1948, page 3 (results column)

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    &1AsAikg8 5 ga Agiklg8@6 FOOTBALL { SCORES Here are the final football scores of games played over the weekend: Wash ngton 0; California 2l. Oregon State 28; UCLA O. Idaho 39 Montana O. Southern California T; Stanford 6. Washington State T: Oregon 33. East Texas State IS; West Texas :. Utah 20; Brigham Young T. St. Marys 33; Denver g. Boston College 13; Mississippi 32. Syracuse O; Northwestern 48. Temple T, Oklahoma ARM 41. Tennessee Tech. 0; Tennessee Al. Toledo 2l; Springfield IA. Connecticut G. Brown 49. Case 26; Carnegie Tech 20 Miami 21; Ohio University 0. North Carolina State ‘; Chatta- looga 0. Tufts 13; Williams IA. Kentucky 25; Marquette 0. Cincinnati 16; Butler T. Iowa State ‘; Missouri 49. Michigan 27: Minnesota IA. Maryland 47 George Washington 0. Bates 31 Maine 0. Duke ‘; Virginia Tech. 0. Michigan State fl: Penn State IA. Wesleyan 27; Amherst 0. Lafayette 19; Bucknell ‘. Florida T; Georgia Tech 42. Notre Dame 27; Iowa 12. Nebraska T; Kansas 27. Alahama 10; Mississippi State ‘. Purdue 6; Illinois 10. Vanderbilt 35; Yale 0. Ariny 27; Cornell 6. Dartmouth IA; Harvard T Colgate IA; Holy Gross 13. Wisconsin 32; Ono State 34 Norwich c; Coast Guard 19. Wash. & Lee T; West Virginia 14. William & Mary 6; St. Bonaven- lure T. Indiana 14; Pitt 21. LSU T; North Carolina 34. Princeton IS; Columbia II. Navy 14; Penn, 20.

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 87% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Pennsylvania leads 22–⁠21–⁠4 in 47 meetings, counting the 14 since this game.

Recent meetings
1987Navy 38, Pennsylvania 28
1986Pennsylvania 30, Navy 26
1960Navy 27, Pennsylvania 0
1959Navy 22, Pennsylvania 22
1958Navy 50, Pennsylvania 8
1957Navy 35, Pennsylvania 7

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