West Virginia at Penn State

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  Evening star, October 28, 1951, page 40

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  Penn State Defeats West Virginia, 1877 STATE COLLEGE, Pa, Oct. 27. Forced to come from behind for the fifth consecutive game this season. Penn State battered across a touchdown midway in the final quarter today to turn back a sur prisingly strong West Virginia football team, l3 to 7, before 16,- 200. West Virginia, which last week trounced Geneva. 80 to 0, scored in the first period against the favored State. However, that was the Virginians’ lone scoring thrust of the day as they fought valiantly the rest of the afternoon trying to check the Penn State attack. Ted Shattuck of Warren, Pa, carried the ball 80 yards on five straight plays to score the WIN ming touchdown. Tony Radios, Steelton, Pa. quarterback, passed to Joe Yukica of Midland for IA yards to launch the 43-yard advance. Shattuck raced off left tackle for % yards and then picked up 4. 2, / and a few inches to get into the West Virginia end zone for the winning points. Bill Leonard place kicked the extra point.

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.

Penn State leads 50–⁠9–⁠2 in 61 meetings, counting the 43 since this game.