Penn State at Pennsylvania
Saturday, November 6, 1948 Share
No. 14 Penn State beat No. 7 Pennsylvania 13–0. It was their 40th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 24–12–4.
FinalHigh 78°F, low 57°F, 0.1 in. of rainAttendance 71,180
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, November 8, 1948, page 3 (results column)
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; SCORES Final scores of leading football ames played during the week nd are as follows: idaho %; Montana State 0. California 28; UCLA. Is. Denver 80; Detroit 81. Cell of Pac. 80; Montana IA. Utah II; Colorado Am 8. Texas Tech As; Texas Mines 6. Arizona IA; New Mexico 6. Oregon 49, washington 7. oregon S. 20; Washington S. 26. ST. Marys 10; Portland U. 0. Oklahoma Al. Missouri Z. Oklahoma Am 10; Tulsa 0. Clemson Al; Furman 0. Virginia 81; N. Carolina S. IA. Alabama o. Miss. Southern 0. Mississippi S, 20; Auburn 0. Villanova 10; Kentucky ID. Vanderbilt 49, LSU Z. Tulane %; VMI 7. Columbia 81; Dartmouth rs. Tennessee 13; Georgia Tech 6. Iowa 0; Illinois IA. Swarthmore 7: Johns Hopkins 10. Boston U SO; Fordham 7. Kings Point 0; Yale So. Wake Forest 81; Duke 20. Trinity Is; Amherst 0. Notre Dame Az. Indiana g. Penn State 13; Penn 0. VIM. and Mary 7; N. Carolina Z. Virginia 81; N. c. State IA. Lafayette ID; Rutgers “a. Holy Cross l6; Duquesne 10. Syracuse O; Temple 20. Pittsburgh 0; Ohio State Al. Colgate 6, Cornell ID. Stanford o; Army 43. Harvard Z, Princeton AZ. Michigan State Z; Marquette 0. Michigan IS; Navy 0. Georgia 90 Florida IL. Northwestern II; Wisconsin Z. Miami O, Dayton 7. Texas Am IA; So. Methodists 20 Drake 0; Iowa 2. Villanova 13; Kentucky 10. Purdue z; Minnesota “a. Rice Is; Arkansas 6. U. Of Texas ID; Baylor 10. K. State O: Nebraska 80. Canis.us IA; st. Bonaventure 6. Santa Clara IA; Nevada 0.
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 STATE TOPPLES PENN80,000 football fans see Penn State's Nittany Lions topple Penn from the unbeaten ranks, with long marches and spectacular passes. Rogel sparks the Penn State 13-0 victory. A big upset!
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 59% to win. Penn State pulled the upset.
The series
Every Penn State–Pennsylvania gamePennsylvania leads 25–18–4 in 47 meetings, counting the seven since this game.
Around this game
Penn State
- Next gamevs. TempleNov. 13, 1948
- SeasonPenn State in 1948
- ProgramPenn State history and records
Pennsylvania
- Next gamevs. ArmyNov. 13, 1948
- SeasonPennsylvania in 1948
- ProgramPennsylvania history and records