Navy at Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 27, 1951

Pennsylvania beat Navy 14–⁠0. It was their 36th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 20–⁠14–⁠2.

AwayNavy2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1951
0
HomePennsylvania5–⁠4 in 1951
14

FinalHigh 74°F, low 52°FAttendance 61,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Penn Scores Twice In Last Period 10 Beat Navy, IA 10 0 picture on Page B-H By Lewis F. Atehison SAnr StnH Tnrsn.nnnaanA

    Evening star, October 28, 1951, page 38

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    Penn Scores Twice In Last Period 10 Beat Navy, IA 10 0 picture on Page B-H By Lewis F. Atehison SAnr StnH Tnrsn.nnnaanA PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 27.- Penn and Navy muddled through three periods Of butter-fingered scoreless football in their 36th gridiron meeting here today. and then the Quakers pulled them selves together and scored twice in the last quarter to beat the Midshipmen for the fifth consecutive year. The score was 14–⁠0. A crowd Of $1,000 watched In 71-degree weather at Franklin field as Navy lost its fourth straight game since It’s opening TT tie with Yale, But for three periods it seemed that Penn

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 22–⁠21–⁠4 in 47 meetings, counting the 11 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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