Navy at Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 28, 1950

Pennsylvania beat Navy 30–⁠7. It was their 35th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 19–⁠14–⁠2.

AwayNavy3–⁠6 in 1950
7
HomePennsylvania6–⁠3 in 1950
30

FinalHigh 68°F, low 51°FAttendance 60,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Navy PIebes Beaten By Penn Frosh, 24-7

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 29, 1950, page 46

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    Navy PIebes Beaten By Penn Frosh, 24–⁠7 PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 2S.-The Navy Plebes’ football team took a 24–⁠7 drubbing from Penn’s freshmen here but the Middle 150pound team got an even break for Navy by routing the Penn 1905 $50. The Quaker freshmen took a 60 halftime lead. increased the margin to 1910 in the third quar-. ter and after Navy’s only score threatened their lead, drove x yards for one touchdown and 81 yards for another. Charlie Black. ard passed to Don Fullam for the only Navy score. Navy halfback Dean Smith scored 26 of the $50 Founders 68 points on runs of %, rs, six and eight yards and two extra-point kicks. The Middies scored at least two touchdowns in every quarter. Navy Pebes q q q Penn Freshmen q & 1o-o4 Navy scoring: Touchdovn-Fullam Exira point-Fullam Penn 1905 O o o o o Navy scoring: Touchdowns-smith. 4; Scolpino. Van Hoof, Bright 9 Mitchell. Cotton Extra points-Knutson, 3; Car

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 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Pennsylvania leads 22–⁠21–⁠4 in 47 meetings, counting the 12 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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