Princeton at Yale

Saturday, November 18, 1950

No. 7 Princeton beat Yale 47–⁠12. It was their 73rd meeting; after it, Yale led the series 37–⁠26–⁠10.

Away7Princeton9–⁠0 in 1950
47
HomeYale6–⁠3 in 1950
12

FinalHigh 44°F, low 35°FAttendance 59,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: | | N | N G Up FOR GREAT BOWL GAMES

    The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, November 20, 1950, page 3 (results column)

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    | | N | N G Up FOR GREAT BOWL GAMES Texas is in the Cotton Bowl. Illinois and California are near enough to Pasadena to smell the roses. A dozen other teams are afraid to stray too far from the telephone lest they miss a ring from one OF the big post-season promoters. The pluck ‘em” season is here for college football and the mad scramble is on to fill the massive stadia in the warm weather climes with the most glamorous eievens available. Right now he list Of unpicked eligibles is headed by Oklahoma ana Kentucky. with Tennessee, Miami fFla0 and Clemson l;st a shade behind. Other prospects include Wyoming, Loyola of Los Angeles, Alabama, Southern Methodist, Nebraska and Tulsa – their desirability hinging largely on the outcome of the re naming few games. The bowl picture at the moment shapes up approximately like this Rosa at Pasadena – Illinois VS. California. Sugar at New Orleans-KentucKy VS. Oklahoma or SMU. - Oklahoma or Tennessee. Orange at Miami = Miami VS. Tennessee, Clemson or Wyoming. Important Games The game with the most import ant bowl bearing Saturday is et Knoxville, Tenn, where unbeatei. and united Kentucky takes on once defeated Tennessee, a team thai perenially gives the Wildcats trouble. It’s reported Sugar Bowl bid is hanging in the balance. Oklahoma, owning modern foot balls longest winning streak CT “ games, will go against Nebraska at Norman and probably can step right into any bowl it chooses, with the exception of the grandpappy OF them all at Pasadena. Sooners May Sit Out The Sooners, Sugar Bowl victors the last two years, may decide. however, to sit this one out. Dallas is almost certain to make a strong bid for a return game between Texas and Oklahoma. The Sooners handed the Longhorns their only defeat this year, 14–⁠13. Texas clinched the Southwest Championship and Cotton Bowl role Saturday by beating Texas Christian, 21–⁠7 while Rice was cooling off the only remaining challenger, Texas A. and M, bib. Illinois can clinch the Rose Bowl assignment by turning back North western, three times beaten, at Evanston, III. Failure to do this could toss the trip to Wisconsin or Michigan. Wisconsin closes with Minnesota and Michigan with Ohio State. Knocks Over Ohio Illinois earned it’s favorable positon by the not-so-simple expedient of knocking over the country’s No. l team, Ohio State, which still can win the conference championship. The fighting Illini stabbed for two touchdowns through the air to prevail, 14–⁠7, and thereby shock ma jority of the experts. Oklahoma, No. 2 behind Ohio State last week, made it’s bid for the main berth by overwhelming Missouri,, At. Babe Parilli, throwing five touch downs, passed Kentucky to an $50 rout of North Dakota. Princeton added to its growing prestige by humbling Yale, 47–⁠12. Army was unable to unleash its full striking power at Palo Alto because of driving rainstorm and had to be content with a hard earned TO victory over Stanford. Oklahoma, Army, California, Ken lucky and Princeton thus kept their records clean, making seven major teams still unbeaten and united. wyoming and Ioyola were idle.

  • The Evening star's story: Leading scorers: Saturdays Grid Stars

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 20, 1950, page 47 (results column)

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    Leading scorers: Saturdays Grid Stars BOB BLAIK, Army–Shot touch down pass to Dan Foldberg late in third period to enable Army to edge Stanford. TO, and stretch its unbeaten string to 28 games. VITO PARILLI, Kentucky Tossed five touchdown passes for a new collegiate record of % for one season and also ran his yardage on passes to 1,477. another record. as Kentucky swamped North Dakota, $50. REDS BAGNELL, Pennsylvania Carried % times for 1874 yards and two touchdowns to lead Pennsylvania to q 300 victory over Wisconsin. BOB ZASTROW, Navy Scored once and completed IA of “a passes good for 172 yards to pace Navy to 29–⁠7 victory over Columbia. AL EGLER, Colgate-Romped SO and 16 yards for touchdowns to spark Colgate to a 1914 decision over Syracuse. FRED MAJOR, Illinois–Chucked two touchdown passes as Illinois upset Ohio State. 14–⁠7. DICK KAZMAIER, Princeton Scored once and pitched three touchdown passes to lead unbeaten Princeton to a 47–⁠12 vic tory over Yale. JIM MONACHTNO, California Skirted his own right end for Z yards and a touchdown in the last period to enable unbeaten California to nip San Francisco, 1877. KER KLEFSAAS, Minnesota Scored three times to lead Min nesota to a 27–⁠14 decision over Purdue. its first victory Of the season. LEON HEATH, Oklahoma Scored once and set up another touchdown with sparkling first half play as unbeaten Oklahoma trounced Missouri. Ait. BOB WILLIAMS, Notre Dame Sneaked over with a touchdown in the third period that enabled Notre Dame to tie Iowa, 14–⁠14. BOBBY MARROW, Alabama Scored four touchdowns including a 91-yard dash as Alabama crushed Georgia Tech. 54–⁠19. BRYON TOWNSEND, Texas–His quick kick, touchdown run and three conversions featured Texas 21–⁠7 victory over Texas Christ ian and clinched Southwest Conference title and Cotton Bowl bid.

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

  • PRINCETON ROUTS YALEIn their 74th meeting, the Princeton Tiger and the Yale Bulldog clash before 60,000 in The Bowl. Princeton rides roughshod over the Elis, scoring at will to complete a 47-12 routUniversal Newsreel, November 20, 1950. Catalog record at the National Archives

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Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Princeton 64% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 71–⁠45–⁠10 in 126 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Yale 13, Princeton 10
2024Yale 42, Princeton 28
2023Yale 36, Princeton 28
2022Yale 24, Princeton 20
2021Princeton 35, Yale 20
2019Yale 51, Princeton 14

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