Columbia at Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 15, 1949

Pennsylvania beat Columbia 27–⁠7. It was their 32nd meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 26–⁠5–⁠1.

AwayColumbia2–⁠7 in 1949
7
HomePennsylvania4–⁠4 in 1949
27

FinalHigh 67°F, low 58°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Pennsylvania Routs Columbia, " to 7, to Remain Unbeaten

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1949, page 48

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    Pennsylvania Routs Columbia, “ to 7, to Remain Unbeaten Bell for 40 yards and first dowr on the Lion five. A hard-charging Columbia lin, choked off PENIS usual down-the. middle running game. Burly Full back Ray Dooney Melted only f1v, yards in Is carries. But to the outside. with Deubel and young Bill Rhoades Juggling the ball, the Penns were stead, threat. Rhoades had a net Of 81 yards in IS carries. Gerry Audette. 190-pounc guard from Fall River. Mass. was the key defender in the Columbia line. Four times in the first hall alone he lanced through to spill Penn backs for losses. COLUMBIA. Left end. Ward. straka. L. Ward Left tackle-Caponegro. wallace. Left suard-Bacauskas, Audette, sautter center-Wasner. Berser, Malone. schwes. Ter. Holteen. FIESTA. RkAt suaEo-Fell, Snahy, Olieo, Mlsno Eisht tackle-cozzi. Federowicz.. Rieht end---Bomm, Grubman. Mclean OBrien. Hansen. ouarterback-Russell Tracy, Wanselow coufal. Vitek. Kimtis. Left hslfback-Hansen. Schwartz. Right halfback-Wynott Toner. Fullback-Van Belligham, Hansen. Nork PENNSYLVANIA Left end-Wettlsufer. Roberts, Hanlon Bell. Left tackle-Prudente. Detorre. Left guard-E. McGinley, Lemonick.. Weie. rich. Laino. center-Hassler. Greenwalt, prisan. . Right guard-McCann, SCHNEIDER. Krimmei Risht tsekle-Reichenbaeh. ooldstrom. Right end-Asocs. Pfah. Powers Quarterba ckL-Coulson Warren. Horton Left halfbackADeuber. Basnell. Cook Jaffurs. RiIht halfback-Rhoads. Topchick. Mike. vich. Quinn. rullbaek-Grahsm. corbo. Dooney. S Selamnia -------9 9 ,ss -? Columbia SCORING: Touchdown-vitek Point after touchdown-Russell. Pennsylvania seoring: Touehdov hs- Deuber. Roberts. BAgnsll, Powers. Points after touchdowns-Asocs 49,.

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 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Pennsylvania leads 61–⁠22–⁠1 in 84 meetings, counting the 52 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Columbia 28, Pennsylvania 27
2025Pennsylvania 35, Columbia 21
2024Columbia 23, Pennsylvania 17
2023Pennsylvania 20, Columbia 17
2022Pennsylvania 34, Columbia 14
2021Columbia 23, Pennsylvania 14

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