Lafayette at Princeton
Saturday, October 20, 1951 Share
No. 9 Princeton beat Lafayette 60–7. It was their 28th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 24–1–3.
FinalHigh 64°F, low 43°FAttendance 15,000
In the newspapers
The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 22, 1951, page 1 (results column)
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FOOTBALL SCORES FAR WEST FAR WEST Illinois 27-Washington 20 Southern Cal 21-California IA Stanford 21-Santa Clara IA Washington State 26 - Oregon State 13 UCLA 41-Oregon 0 SOUTHWEST Texas Christian 20 - Texas A & M IA Oklahoma 33-Kansas 21 Rice 28-Southern Methodist 2 MIDWEST Northwestern 16-Navy 7 Michigan 21-Iowa 0 Notre Dame 33-Pittsburgh O Indiana 32-Ohio State 10. SOUTH LSU 7-Georgia 0 Kentucky 35-Villanova 13 Mississippi 25-Tulane 6 Virginia 34-VMI IA Duke 55-VPI 6 Georgia Tech 27-Auburn 2 EAST San Francisco 32-Fordham 26 Penn 28-Columbia 13 Princeton 60-Lafayette 7 Carnegie Tech 39-Allegheny O
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)
Princeton 90% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Lafayette–Princeton gamePrinceton leads 39–3–3 in 45 meetings, counting the 17 since this game.
| 2025 | Princeton 38, Lafayette 28 | |
| 2023 | Lafayette 12, Princeton 9 | |
| 2022 | Princeton 23, Lafayette 2 | |
| 2019 | Princeton 28, Lafayette 3 | |
| 2017 | Princeton 38, Lafayette 17 | |
| 2016 | Princeton 35, Lafayette 31 |
Around this game
Lafayette
- Next gameat PrincetonOct. 18, 1952
- SeasonLafayette in 1951
- ProgramLafayette history and records
Princeton
- Next gamevs. CornellOct. 27, 1951
- SeasonPrinceton in 1951
- ProgramPrinceton history and records