Navy at Pennsylvania
Saturday, October 27, 1951 Share
Pennsylvania beat Navy 14–0. It was their 36th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 20–14–2.
FinalHigh 74°F, low 52°FAttendance 61,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 28, 1951, page 38
Read the text
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.
The series
Every Navy–Pennsylvania gamePennsylvania leads 22–21–4 in 47 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.
| 1987 | Navy 38, Pennsylvania 28 | |
| 1986 | Pennsylvania 30, Navy 26 | |
| 1960 | Navy 27, Pennsylvania 0 | |
| 1959 | Navy 22, Pennsylvania 22 | |
| 1958 | Navy 50, Pennsylvania 8 | |
| 1957 | Navy 35, Pennsylvania 7 |
Around this game
Navy
- Next gamevs. Notre DameNov. 3, 1951
- SeasonNavy in 1951
- ProgramNavy history and records
Pennsylvania
- Next gamevs. William & MaryNov. 3, 1951
- SeasonPennsylvania in 1951
- ProgramPennsylvania history and records

